[REBOL] Re: I've had it with email.
From: rebollist:juicybits at: 30-Jul-2002 12:27
I've been dreaming of this stuff for years, now. What'd really be cool would be a web-based,
imap email system written in REBOL (rebol web email, or just say RWE for now) with (at
least) the following features.
1) Periodically check or retrieve headers or headers and bodies from POP.
2) Instantly report suspect (or all unfamiliar From:) email header data to an RWE system
higher up in a hierarchy, which summarizes and passes up header data to the next higher
RWEl server, etc, quickly detecting mass spam attacks and notifying lower RWE servers
back down the tree to delete the emails.
3) When an unfamiliar From: address is suspected, automatically reply to the sender,
asking them to authenticate with a password. (Do this in text. If/when RWE really became
a threat to spammers so that they started automatically responding with passwords, change
the text password to a graphic, or anything machine non-readable. Can even require senders
to authenticate via web url. RWE will be quickly updatable.)
Other features can come later. (This could become very scalable, from simple endu-user
to high-end provider features... eg IMAP features, im notification & rules, address book
import/export, mail list options, etc. Um, IOS integration?) The anti-spam feature alone
would be enough to get it started, and popular among end users and webmasters (and even
ISPs) wanting to provide service to end users, worldwide.
--Ken.
>But ultimately some sort of third party mediation may be required just
>to authenticate senders and receivers (and clients, since undoubtedly
>some will want to override the 'features' which made such a system
>attractive in the first place) - that'd be the only true defence
>against spammers.
[snip]
> But
>ultimately some sort of third party mediation may be required just to
>authenticate senders and receivers (and clients, since undoubtedly
>some will want to override the 'features' which made such a system
>attractive in the first place) - that'd be the only true defence
>against spammers.
>
>Regards,
>
>Mat.
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