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Re: 'Kittenauth' verification system
by Simon at 16:09 27/07/06 (Blogs::Bruce)
Email's dead, it's just not stopped writhing yet.

The way forward (pontificateth he) is a mechanism where you don't send an email anywhere, you just put it on your own message server and tag it as being for one or more intended recipients. Other people do the same on their message servers.

People who you've previously approved then periodically poll your message server asking if there's anything for them, and your message server periodically polls the message servers of your past correspondents seeing if there's anything for you.

Finally, instead of all 'email' being delivered into a particular recipient's mailbox, this new 'not email' is put into a box on your machine tagged as being "From" that sender. So you have lots of "Sender" drop boxes instead of one "Recipient" dropbox.

You can then erect whatever barriers you like to becoming one of the lucky few granted permission to poll and deliver to your local message server, and that keeps the spammers from reaching you.

As for someone you've never heard from before legitimately needing to get in touch, well maybe you don't erect such quite high barriers for permission to put stuff in the drop box for 'new correspondent requests', and you continue to filter that for spam leaving you to concentrate on the stuff you know has come from legitimate senders via your pre-approved channels.

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simon

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    Re: 'Kittenauth' verification ... Jonathan Tuppeny - 27/07
       Re: 'Kittenauth' verification ... Bruce Ure - 27/07
          Re: 'Kittenauth' verification ... Jonathan Tuppeny - 27/07
          Re: 'Kittenauth' verification ... Simon - 27/07
       Re: 'Kittenauth' verification ... Simon - 27/07
          Re: 'Kittenauth' verification ... Jonathan Tuppeny - 27/07
             Re: 'Kittenauth' verification ... Steve - 27/07
                Re: 'Kittenauth' verification ... Simon - 28/07
       Re: 'Kittenauth' verification ... Gordon Hundley - 29/07