David:   A system like you describe already exists:  ChoiceMail One.  You
can check it out at http://www.digiportal.com/    I have been using it for
quite sometime and it eliminates spam easily and virtually 100%.


At 04:32 PM 9/29/2003 -0400, David Poehlman wrote:
>With the proliffereation of email services that challenge every sender to
>prove that they are a legitimate email sender, I have an idea that could
>make lots of money for someone.  It is quite simple really and places the
>burden in the right place.
>
>A mail finter that looks at your address book and if it finds an address
>that matches the sender, the message gets through.  The result if it does
>not find a message can be one of two.  It can ask you to decide if you want
>to view the message and add the sender to your address book or it can place
>the message in a folder of your designation for later viewing and if you
>want, you can even set up a block list.  Oh, I know, it's a real joy to
>annoy each person who sends you a message even if only once and force them
>to prove to you or the system that they are not a robot, but what is to
>prevent someone from forging your email address and sending tons of unwanted
>email to a spammer anyway.  I say, cut out the middle man, cut out making
>everyone do what we should be doing ourselves and set up a screening service
>that we controll.  Suppose that system glitches and starts just sending
>these little prove to me you are a human messages out all over the place.
>No, we need to take controll of our email and we need to be responsible
>ultimately for what we recieve willingly and best of all, it won't matter
>whether the sender can see or hear.
>
>
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