JeevesBond — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 01:39:19 +0000

greg wrote: then if you're not good, your name dont go on the list
and "if your names not on the list you're not getting in"

This is an interesting idea, but there are a couple of problems with it:

How do you tell the difference between a human and a bot? If you're names not on the list: pretend to be a human using Opera/Firefox/some other browser, then you'll be let through.
Who controls the list? Is it going to be like Hotmail, where Microsoft charge $1,400 to be removed from their spammers blacklist?

The easiest way is to keep a blacklist of spamming IP's and botnames, it might be a good idea to have an international blacklist, but again it's a problem of who controls it?

Interesting stuff to think about though!