CBP: Spam and Virus Handling (was Re: [clug] [AUSCERT ALERT - Email worm W32.Beagle.A/Win32.Bagle.A])

[Tim Potter]

On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 11:26:00PM +1100, Alex Satrapa wrote:

> One great technique I read about was only accepting email from 
> addresses on your whitelist - a variant of the "block everything except 
> the stuff you want or need" rule. People can add themselves to the 
> whitelist by subscribing to it through a web page and sending you an 
> email within a certain timeout period (or sending an email containing a 
> specific time-sensitive key, or whatever).

I think it's great too.  I just hit delete whenever I get one of those
stupid challenge/response messages.

http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Rants/challenge-response.html


Tim.