Subject: SMTP based IKDE (for Bob Allisat Detection)

From: Mitch Denny <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1999 13:40:11 +1000

Simple Mail Transfer Protocol - Internet Kook Detection Extension
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People of Internet (open armed warm fuzzy feeling pose),

I am thinking of writing an RFC that sugests adding a
new header to mail messages:

internet-kook-detection-extension: .......<CRLF>

Basically it would be used in conjunction with a IKDP
(internet kook detection protocol) to flag messages
as they pass thru mail servers warning recipient servers
and user-agents that the content of this message originated
from a user that has previously published hundreds of
useless spam like messages to the internet.

Ofcourse what the user agents and servers do with
this information is totally up to them, they could
for example delete the message, automatically forward
the message to a stupid message of the day archive,
or allow it to pass thru to the user.

Now, on to detail:

each successive server that a message server passes
thru looks up the senders address using IKDP and
determines if that user has been flagged as an
internet kook (this is done by a process that will
be described later).

If the response is positive then to the:

internet-kook-detection-extension: ......<CRLF>

a yes(<hostname>.<fqdn>) is added, where the
hostname and fqdn is that of the current server.

Ofcourse servers can vote no(<hostname>.<fqdn>),
the resulting header is such:

internet-kook-detection-extension: yes(mailhost1.server.com),
no(mailhost1.client.com)<CRLF>

In this case it is a 50-50 result and the user agent
has to decide for itself.

The more servers that a message is routed thru the
more accurate the vote would be.

The end result would probably be a central kook
notification server in which 200 votes for an e-mail
address will get you added to the kook list, and
100 votes would get you off it.

Ofcourse all servers can source their own kook
notification server.

Now all you guys have to decide is whether I am
serious or not :)

Cheers,

Mitch Denny
[email-masked]