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| Are you pissed off when checking your e-mails and recieving hundreds or thousands of spams offering things you don't need and of course you don't want. Spam is the most "bothering" thing in the internet. We had to enforce spamfilters with the problem that non-spam emails are also filtered. So we have to invest a lot of time to check spam filtered emails for non-spams. Time is money! And we're pissed off, too. |
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| The following lines shall demonstrate an idea for an almost spam free e-mail future: The idea is that an e-mail is not just send out into the internet hoping it will be recieved by the right e-mail server. Our idea is that the e-mail servers communicate directly and request responds for verification. Step 1: Sending E-Mails When an e-mail will send out the sender e-mail server will include an hash-code in the header of the e-mail, created of sender's e-mail address, recipient's e-mail address and the current timestamp. So this hash-code will be a unique code and it's nearly impossible that there will be an e-mail including this hash-code again at the same time. The same moment the e-mail server creates a small file without content with the generated hash-code as name and keeps it for a while. Step 2: Recieving E-Mail When the recipients e-mail server recieves an e-mail the server will check the header of the e-mail for the hash-code. Then the e-mail server contacts the sender server and requests "Did you send an e-mail with the hash code ..... ?". The sender's e-mail server will check the hash-code files and repsonds with "Yes" or "No". If the repond is "Yes", the recipients server will forward the e-mail to the mailbox of the recipient and everything is fine. If the respond is "No", the recipients server will delete the e-mail and everything's fine, too. So the recipient will never ever recieve e-mails send out by scripts from hacked servers or if spam senders use sender e-mail addresses they do not own. Only e-mails send from real e-mail accounts from real e-mail servers will have the chance to get through if they contain a verifiable hash-code. Everything else will be deleted automatically. All this will work through no fault of any person. |
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Possible problems: This will only work when all e-mail servers will work this way. To bridge the time untill all e-mail servers will have implemented this function, e-mails without an included hash-code will not be deleted, but marked as possible spam or "not verified" because of the missing hash-code. The future for spam senders: The will get it harder. To stay anonymous they would have to hack existing e-mail accounts or they would have to create them to send out their millions of spam-trash. But also here server software could get implemented that checks if the e-mails send out could be spam because of identical content send to too many recipients. Senders of Newsletter: Companies that have to send out newsletters to many many recipients maybe should register to an institution or special newsletter companies for a very little money and getting some kind of certificate that ensures that these newsletter emails are valid and not spam. Sure, this could be a tricky thing. Maybe only newsletters send out through the service of the newsletter companies will count as valid. But, for sure, the fee for this service has to be very very little to not make it a service only for companies that already dominate the marked. Also small companies must have the money to send out newsletter. Mails from contact forms etc.: Either the forms will send the emails through an existing email account to have the hash-code functionality, or the contact form function will be expanded by a special always recurrent hash-code that is known by the recipients email server and so the server knows that this is not spam, this comes from a valid contact form. Every e-mail server should have an unique list of unique hash-codes for such function that can't be guessed by spam senders. If spam senders would try to use that gap they would have to generate trillions of spams with automtic generated hash-codes in hope that some of them will get trough. But also in that case those spams will get through to some administrators, only. In the end: Spamers will lose their jobs because almost no-one will get their trash. And because of they can not live from that anymore they will have to look for a real job. |
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| But now? Please spread out this idea! All IT-companies all over the world should found an alliance (or so) to programm those little e-mail server scripts to implement this functionality in all email servers world wide. We think that this is not a heroic task. But if implemented it will save a lot of time and money to all of us. Please stick together for a spam free email future. |
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