RealProgrammer's Journal: RFC on Spam Eradification

See http://healconsulting.com/spam.

The basics:

• (presumes reliable host identification for SMTP via e.g. LMAP)
• incoming spam generates an alert to the sending site and to a blacklist server
• to keep your name off the blacklist, you trace the headers of the message, find who sent it to you, and generate a new spam alert to them and the blacklist server
• the blacklist server only has to keep the latest alert
• the blacklist server tracks and publishes the frequency of spam alerts for a given site
• sites can use this information in their spam detection
• may or may not work for boxes that have been rooted