[H-GEN] On SpamAssassin and email

[David Starkoff]

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At 2002-11-22T19:26+1000, Robert Brockway wrote:

> It occured to me while reading about TMDA that most spam would be
> stopped dead in its tracks just by accepting mail only from people
> already in your address book[2] or another home grown whitelist.  I
> wondered why this had never occured to me before.

The religious merits of TMDA as an anti-spam solution were the subject
of a somewhat extended discussion on the Gnus development list (i.e.,
ding).  I seem to recall that TMDA could interface with BBDB and thus
not require address validation for addresses in the database.

  <http://www.gnus.org/list-archives/ding/200111/msg00115.html>
  <http://www.gnus.org/list-archives/ding/200111/msg00118.html>

Then again, I could be completely mistaken.  I've never tried it.

David.
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