Spam Free Email

While I currently do not have the answer to that question, that is one question I will be able to answer when I get this new anti-spam system up and running

While working on the core engine of this new service I’m creating I realized that the ability to block any email messages based on country of origin was going to be beneficial.

I had already developed scripts to automatically update an IP-to-country data for my IP database, so modifying it into a system that will be able to be part of the profile for each email message should not be too difficult.

Then giving people the ability to see how many emails they get originating in a certain country and then the ability to block all emails from that country could help a lot.

White lists and SPF could also be set to override a blocked country, so that you could still get an emai] if the sender was in that country. This would be good for the idea of having one or two foreign vendors, but then wanting to block everything from the rest of the country.

In any case this is one of the ideas that I am going to be working to this new service …. once I get it going

I’ve been actively working on a Lisp based DNS resolver, what does this have to do with spam you might ask?

I’m planning on creating the ”’Spam Free Email”’ service’s backed with Lisp and as I’ve stated before DNS is one of the most powerful and flexible tools (RBLs and SPF) for fighting spam, so it seemed like the best place to start.

Since I’ve only be programming in Lisp for the better part of two weeks I’m doing well, but currently I’m spending as much time looking up syntax and commands as I am writing the logic. This will pass as I’m more familiar with the language, but all in all I still think this is the right direction to move in.

[tag]Lisp, DNS[/tag]