Gentle Reader Wolfjam has a novel idea:

“It seems to me that if we were to make a few simple changes we could pretty well eliminate spam.

First, let’s look at what the spammers have going for them…

1. They can remain anonymous by using trojans, domains that expire, etc.

2. It is easy for them to gather up more zombies.

I propose that we first make a change to our email servers so that any mail coming from someone that is NOT in the white list is accepted to the end of the headers ONLY, and then the rest of the message is rejected.

The rejected email sits on the sender’s server in the retry queue and delivery is attempted again later. The headers are delivered as an e-mail, after being filtered, etc. If - and only if - the recipient WANTS the e-mail, they reply to automatically add the sender to the whitelist, or simply click a button somewhere.

Here are a few of the benefits…

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