Re: [Asrg] Email passwords

["dongxiaoli" <dongxiaoli at cnnic.cn>]

yeah.I thought about the similar idear. I think this will work,but it is not proper for implement in lager-scale,and not too easy to deploy
for example,you should have a homepage to give your email password.

Then,if the picture contains the emailpassword can be placed in a public place associate with our email count..next we can implement it in a automatic method.ie. if someone want to send a mail to me ,then he will first be linked to my emailpassword picture,and he should contain the emailpassword in email subject....I think this is a good way.but thus we should regulate the sender's action(ie.automatic link to the pic),so it is not easy to deploy.
Any way,I think we can improve it...

My English is not good,so wish you should not be confused by my words.

Thanks
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David A. Wheeler" <dwheeler at dwheeler.com>
To: <asrg at ietf.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2004 4:08 PM
Subject: [Asrg] Email passwords


| I've looked over the discussion lists, and I
| noted that one anti-spam measure that I use hasn't
| been mentioned as far as I can tell by this group.
| It's an approach that I call "email passwords".
| 
| It's a trivial approach. Just designate some word/phrase as your
| email password. If a message has the email password in the subject
| line, rank the message as much less likely to be spam,
| or just throw it immediately into your Inbox.
| Then make information on how to figure out that password
| available to others in a shrouded way (e.g., as a graphic
| on your website).  You can also include "reply marker"
| text in your replies, and search mail bodies for that text too.
| 
| In some ways, it's stupid; this can't even PRETEND to be the
| Final Ultimate Solution to the Spam Problem (TM).
| But It Works For Me (TM), and I think that if it works, it's not stupid.
| In particular, I get so much spam (~1000 messages/day
| last I checked) that I _MUST_ automatically
| delete any message marked as spam, without manual review.
| Email passwords let me sleep better at night, because strangers
| are more likely to be able to get their email through to me.
| Basically, email passwords partially counter one of the
| main drawbacks of filters, because they reduce the risk of a false
| positive. Combined with filtering, whitelists, and blacklists, this 
| approach can help.
| 
| More info is at:
|   http://www.dwheeler.com/essays/spam-email-password.html
| 
| Sorry if this is old hat to everyone.  I just haven't seen
| this simple approach discussed elsewhere.
| 
| I don't think there's any reason to create a subgroup
| for this trivial idea, nor is there a need to
| standardize antyhing.  But perhaps it might be worth a mention
| in one of the outputs of the filtering group, and/or any
| documentation that tries to cover "all the ways to counter spam".
| And maybe there IS something that needs standardizing
| based on this.
| 
| Thanks for your time.
| 
| --- David A. Wheeler
| 
| 
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