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Julie Brandon <nospam@merp.demon.co.uk.invalid> wrote:
> 
> On 16 Jun 2002 23:27:13 GMT, bogus address (bogus@purr.demon.co.uk) said:
>>The dumb cunts at Demon will do *nothing* to help.  The main thing
>>I want out of an ISP is a usable (i.e. spam-free) email service and
>>they aren't interested in providing it.  I have told them what I want
>>(server-side filtering more or less as Claranet does it; i.e. it's
>>certainly feasible because more competent ISPs manage it) and they
>>don't even respond.
> 
> To be honest, if that's the sort of thing you're looking for, without being
> nasty or anything, you really probably are using the wrong ISP.  
> 
> Demon has pretty much always been a techie oriented ISP, i.e. given the
> users the raw service in completeness as much as possible, and then let them
> handle the rest of it.

The ISP has more data than the node.

At one time, I used addresses of the form 
time@mauve.demon.co.uk
to post to usenet.
This has let me generate some spam rules that are much, much more reliable
than if I'd just used a single address.
For example, if I get one mail to "Jun 9 2000" (not actual address scheme
I used), It can be hard to tell if it's real or not.
However, if it's rapidly followed by 83 to "Jun 10 2000" , "Jun 11 2000", ...
with similar content, then it's certainly spam. 

Some simple scheme, like if a box in 'webpassword' is ticked, it turns
on one of several options "drop over X score", "Bounce over X score",
"Warn over X score", would be welcomed by many.

Maybe mangle the Mail FROM:<fish@a.spammer.com> to 
<fish%a.spammer.com%spam-score-9.redirector.demon.co.uk>

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