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[Allen Gwinn]

Yes, this is probably a very good way to do it.  An affiliate's site won't accept
email from you unless it knows you.  The way it finds out that you're OK is to send
a reply to you asking you to confirm your first piece of email.  Since most spammers
are "drop and go" with invalid reply-to's, spam is effectively filtered.

There's no silver bullet--but there are things you can do to reduce it.  The best
thing on the net is Spamcop.net.  The next best thing is mail-abuse.org's RBL.
Maybe as time progresses, and people's email boxes become unusable, the issue will
be solved through a combination of technical and legislative.

Thanks for the input.

Allen

Robert Dewar wrote:

> We have eliminated 100% of SPAM (well to be fair 3 got through last year) from
> our report@gnat.com mailing list at ACT by the simple mechanism of requiring
> a specific string in the subject line. If this string is not there, we send back
> a message explaining our policy, so that if there is a human at the other end,
> the message can be resent.