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<h2>Introduction</h2>
Spam relies on volume.  <b>Slowlists</b> thwart that.  If you
throttle spam you can kill it, because spam's only selling point is
high volume at high speed.  The goal of slowlists is the complete
elimination of spam from irresponsible ISPs by reducing it to an
unprofitable level.  It does not directly address spam ordinating
from rogue users of otherwise good ISPs.
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Slowlists restrict a sender's volume of email by delaying the
receiver's response according to the reputation of (the IP address
of) the sender.  Senders in good grace move email without penalty;
unknown senders are slowed, to provide a window to verify their
volume; probable spammers are asked to retry later, to show their 
penance.  This last delay can be calibrated to squelch even the 
huge number of open proxies.  No email is ever rejected: only the 
patience of the sender is tried.
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A sender's good reputation is shared with other good senders, to
create a society of legitimate email movers.  To be effective, a
<b>slowlists society</b> should be large and communicate as if they
were a single receiver, to throttle volume to <i>any</i> part of
the society.  Outsiders can still send mail -- slowly -- and over
time gain the legitimacy they deserve.
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#	Change	User	Description	Committed
#2	4052	bryan_costales	Implimented: whitelisting AddMXHost for MX servers that lie Converted to thread safe DNS routines garbage collection RunAsUser and RunAsGroup for root startups rebuild the database summarize by IP number Finished all documentation. Moved release from alpha to beta
#1	3998	bryan_costales	Brought the whole distribution up to V0.9 Added a huge abount of documentation. Added slowedit find Created startup scripts to launch for testing Fixed numerous bugs. Fixed a few portablity issues. Installed hooks for whitelisting and IP aliases.