FW: Re: Roster of members ...

>I suggest that we should have representation from:
>
>1) filter developers (commercial and open source)
>2) MUA developers
>3) MTA
>4) workgroup server developers (Microsoft, IBM, etc)
>5) otherwise smart people (not exclusive, hopefully other members fit this 
>as well!)

Well,

since I tinker with a method (presented to ASRG mail-list last spring) that 
I called Earnest after Oscar Wilde's little play, since I look for the TRUE 
data left in a spam, as URL's or 0800-numbers and do have a little 
unfinished shellscript Proof of Concept that beats my private ISP's 
Spamassassin ;-), #1 is maybe applicable.

Since I also in the late 80:ies and early 90:ies wrote a couple of MUAs for 
employers (one with Kermit file transfer as the protocol, since we only had 
modem/shell account to Internet :-), #2 could be in order, though i must 
admit the NZ Pegasus got me to stop writing own MUAs.

As a scandinavian, #5 is definitely is out of scope, due to a local 
philosopher in 1900:s, that wrote, "you shall not believe you are something" 
;-). Luckyly the finns never read the guy.

I am mostly interested in seeing how to get my PoC to be smarter to handle 
"first time data", what it does not know yet, since that is the Earnest 
methods real disadvantage. Also it seems that I am not alone looking at 
this, since Yakov dropped me a line that AOL and Yahoo is looking at the 
same idea.  But I am not working with any commercial or open source grade 
code/refining, since my employer does not support me in this. They want me 
to fix other security stuff, so I keep to my PoC and some analys stuff I 
discuss with Terry.

Regards  Kurt Magnusson

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