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CVS: tmda-cgi/display/themes/Blue/template conf-example.html,NONE,1.1 faq.h: msg#00289

Subject: CVS: tmda-cgi/display/themes/Blue/template conf-example.html,NONE,1.1 faq.html,NONE,1.1 installed.html,NONE,1.1 no-install.html,NONE,1.1 uninstall.html,NONE,1.1 uninstalled.html,NONE,1.1 welcome.html,NONE,1.1
Update of /cvsroot/tmda/tmda-cgi/display/themes/Blue/template
In directory sc8-pr-cvs1:/tmp/cvs-serv28495/display/themes/Blue/template

Added Files:
        conf-example.html faq.html installed.html no-install.html 
        uninstall.html uninstalled.html welcome.html 
Log Message:
Changed default error template so it won't include buttons that cannot yet be
used.

Added in unfinished installation code.

Added some install/uninstall variables.

Remove main routine from tmda-cgi.py and made it in-line.


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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title>Challenge Example</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<link href="%(ThemeDir)s/styles.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
</head>
<body bgcolor="#A6A6B3" text="#000000">
<table width="100%" height="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
  <tr height="135"> 
    <td><table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
        <tr> 
          <td bgcolor="#7B7CB6" width="194"><img src="%(ThemeDir)s/corner.gif" 
width="194" height="135" alt=""></td>
          <td background="%(ThemeDir)s/top_bg.gif" bgcolor="#7B7CB6"><img 
src="%(ThemeDir)s/title.png" alt="TMDA (http://tmda.net) CGI Interface" 
width="327" height="135"></td>
        </tr>
      </table></td>
  </tr>
  <tr> 
    <td valign="top" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><table width="100%" height="100%" 
border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
        <tr>
          <td valign="top" class="matte"><table width="100%" border="0" 
cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
              <tr> 
                <td width="150" valign="top" 
background="%(ThemeDir)s/left_bg.gif" bgcolor="#7B7CB6"><img 
src="%(ThemeDir)s/tail.gif" width="150" height="23"></td>
                <td valign="top" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" class="body"><h2>A Sample 
Challenge 
                    E-mail </h2>
                  <p>Once you install TMDA, your friends will receive a 
challenge 
                    e-mail the first time they write to you. Here's an example 
                    of what they will receive:</p>
                  <table border="1" align="center" cellpadding="10" 
bgcolor="#DEDEEE">
                    <tr>
                      <td><img src="%(ThemeDir)s/paperclip.gif" width="61" 
height="77" align="right">
<table>
                          <tr> 
                            <td><b>Date:</b></td>
                            <td>Wed, 23 Apr 2003 00:13:13 -0500</td>
                          </tr>
                          <tr> 
                            <td><b>From:</b></td>
                            <td>You &lt;your@xxxxxxxxxx&gt;</td>
                          </tr>
                          <tr> 
                            <td><b>To:</b></td>
                            <td>Dave &lt;daves@xxxxxxxxxx&gt;</td>
                          </tr>
                          <tr> 
                            <td><b>Subject:</b></td>
                            <td>Please confirm your message</td>
                          </tr>
                        </table>
                        <p>
                        This message was created automatically by mail delivery 
                        software<br>
                        (TMDA).
                        <p>Your message attached below is being held because 
the 
                          address<br>
                          &lt;daves@xxxxxxxxxx&gt; has not been verified.</p>
                        <p>To release your message for delivery, please send an 
                          empty message<br>
                          to the following address, or use your mailer's 
&quot;Reply&quot; 
                          feature.</p>
                        <p> your-confirm-1051074793.30114.823365@xxxxxxxxxx</p>
                        <p> This confirmation verifies that your message is 
legitimate 
                          and not<br>
                          junk-mail. You should only have to confirm your 
address 
                          once.</p>
                        <hr width="50%">
                        <table>
                          <tr>
                            <td align="center"><img 
src="%(DispDir)s/icons/text.gif" width="32" height="32"><br>
                              <font size="-2" face="Arial, Helvetica, 
sans-serif">Message</font> </td>
                          </tr>
                        </table>
                        
                      </td>
                    </tr>
                  </table>
                  <p>&nbsp;</p>
                  <table width="100%">
                    <tr align="center"> 
                      <td><a href="%(Script)s?cmd=install&SID=%(SID)s"><b>Sign 
me up!</b></a></td>
                      <td><b><a 
href="%(Script)s?cmd=welcome&SID=%(SID)s">Back</a></b></td>
                    </tr>
                  </table></td>
              </tr>
            </table></td>
        </tr>
      </table></td>
  </tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>

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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title>Frequently Asked Questions</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<link href="%(ThemeDir)s/styles.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
</head>
<body bgcolor="#A6A6B3" text="#000000">
<table width="100%" height="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
  <tr height="135"> 
    <td><table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
        <tr> 
          <td bgcolor="#7B7CB6" width="194"><img src="%(ThemeDir)s/corner.gif" 
width="194" height="135" alt=""></td>
          <td background="%(ThemeDir)s/top_bg.gif" bgcolor="#7B7CB6"><img 
src="%(ThemeDir)s/title.png" alt="TMDA (http://tmda.net) CGI Interface" 
width="327" height="135"></td>
        </tr>
      </table></td>
  </tr>
  <tr> 
    <td valign="top" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><table width="100%" height="100%" 
border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
        <tr>
          <td valign="top" class="matte"><table width="100%" border="0" 
cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
              <tr> 
                <td width="150" valign="top" 
background="%(ThemeDir)s/left_bg.gif" bgcolor="#7B7CB6"><img 
src="%(ThemeDir)s/tail.gif" width="150" height="23"></td>
                <td valign="top" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" class="body"><h2>Frequently 
                    Asked Questions</h2>
<p><a href="#Free">Is it really free?</a><br>
  <a href="#Annoy">Won't this challenge/response thing annoy people 
  who send me mail?</a><br>
  <a href="#Quarantine">Can I look at the messages in quarantine to make 
  sure I'm not missing something important?</a><br>
  <a href="#Automated">What about my mailing list and joke of the day? 
  How will that get past TMDA?</a><br>
  <a href="#Replies">What about people I send mail to, do they get 
  challenged as well?</a><br>
  <a href="#Uninstall">What if I change my mind? Can I get rid of TMDA 
  easily?</a></p>

<h3><a name="Free"></a>Is it really free?</h3>

<p>Yes, both TMDA and tmda-cgi (the program that lets you configure TMDA with 
  your web browser) are free. The programmers who created it volunteered their 
  time because they hate spam <b><i>that</i></b> much.</p>

<h3><a name="Annoy"></a>Won't this challenge/response thing annoy people who 
  send me mail?</h3>

<p>A little, perhaps. But I think you'll see that the inconvenience is slight 
  and since other users only have to confirm once, they won't mind doing it to 
  help you stay spam-free. You'd reply to a message to make them spam-free, 
  wouldn't you?<p>

<p>Also, you can edit the list that TMDA uses to determine whether messages get 
  challenged. If you really think that replying to confirmation messages will 
  annoy your friends, you can put their addresses on the list pre-emptively and 
  they'll never notice a difference.</p>

<h3><a name="Quarantine"></a>Can I look at the messages in quarantine to make 
sure I'm 
  not missing something important?</h3>

<p>Yes, tmda-cgi has a feature that lets you look at quarantined mail. TMDA 
  calls this your "pending" directory. You can even select the whitelist button 
  associated with a message to release it, and allow future mail from that 
  source to be accepted without challenge.<p>

<h3><a name="Automated"></a>What about my mailing list and joke-of-the-day? How 
  will that get past TMDA?</h3>

<p>There are two simple ways to tell TMDA to accept mail from a particular 
  automated source:<p>
<ul>
  <li>For automated mailings that always come from the same e-mail address 
(such 
    as a joke-of-the-day mailing), simply add the sender's e-mail address to 
    your list. Any future mailings from that address will be accepted without a 
    challenge.<p>
    This is nice because if joke-of-the-day (or whomever) sells off your 
address 
    to a spammer, you still won't receive any spam. The spammer will almost 
    certainly send the spam from a different address than the one you 
    listed.<p></li>
  <li>Mailing lists require a slightly different tactic. Since the posts come 
    from all sorts of different addresses, the easiest solution is to create a 
    "keyword" address and use that when you sign up for the list.<p>
    Suppose you wanted to join a mailing list about quilters. Instead of 
signing 
    up with your real e-mail address (let's say it is 
    <tt>joe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx</tt>), you can use tmda-cgi to generate a keyword 
    address such as <tt>joe-keyword-quilters.092a48@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx</tt> and 
    use that when you sign up (yes, it is a pretty long address, but you can 
    generally copy and paste it). Any e-mail that arrives to this address will 
    be accepted.<p>
    Keyword addresses are a bit like giving out a key to your mailbox. Anyone 
    can send mail to them. If the a spammer gets a hold of a keyword address, 
    they can start spamming you again. <b><i>However</i></b>, locks are easily 
    changed and keywords are easily revoked. If you start receiving spam 
    directed to <tt>joe-keyword-quilters.092a48@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx</tt>, you'll 
    know it leaked out from your quilters mailing list. You can revoke the
    address and either sign up again to the mailing list with a new keyword 
    address, or revoke the keyword and find some other place to get your fix of 
    quilting news.</li>
</ul>
    
<h3><a name="Replies"></a>What about people I send mail to, do they get 
challenged 
as well?</h3>
<p>No, people you write to do not generally have to confirm anything. If you 
  send mail from a TMDA-guarded account to someone who is not on your list, 
TMDA 
  can be configured to automatically make up a new "dated" address and use 
that. 
  Unlike keyword addresses that code a word into the address (see above), dated 
  addresses code an expiration time into the address (five days, for example).  
  If the user replies to your e-mail within that time, they won't have to 
  confirm.<p>
<p>Dated addresses are generally transparent and fairly safe.  If a spammer 
gets 
  a hold of one, they can only use it until it expires. Any mail sent to an 
  expired address typically generates a confirmation notice, as if they sent 
  mail to your regular address.</p>
<p>In other words, you can send mail to someone, they can reply, you can reply 
  to them, and so on for as long as you wish without anyone ever having to 
  confirm. If they take too long to reply, they would have to confirm then, but 
  again, only once. At that point they would be on your list and TMDA would 
  accept mail from them without a challenge.</p>

<h3><a name="Uninstall"></a>What if I change my mind? Can I get rid of TMDA 
easily?</h3>

<p>Yes, there is an uninstall option on the tmda-cgi menu, under "settings".</p>

                  <table width="100%">
                    <tr align="center"> 
                      <td><a href="%(Script)s?cmd=install&SID=%(SID)s"><b>Sign 
me up!</b></a></td>
                      <td><b><a 
href="%(Script)s?cmd=welcome&SID=%(SID)s">Back</a></b></td>
                    </tr>
                  </table></td>
              </tr>
            </table></td>
        </tr>
      </table></td>
  </tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>

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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title>Installed!</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<link href="%(ThemeDir)s/styles.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
</head>
<body bgcolor="#A6A6B3" text="#000000">
<table width="100%" height="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
  <tr height="135"> 
    <td><table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
        <tr> 
          <td bgcolor="#7B7CB6" width="194"><img src="%(ThemeDir)s/corner.gif" 
width="194" height="135" alt=""></td>
          <td background="%(ThemeDir)s/top_bg.gif" bgcolor="#7B7CB6"><img 
src="%(ThemeDir)s/title.png" alt="TMDA (http://tmda.net) CGI Interface" 
width="327" height="135"></td>
        </tr>
      </table></td>
  </tr>
  <tr> 
    <td valign="top" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><table width="100%" height="100%" 
border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
        <tr>
          <td valign="top" class="matte"><table width="100%" border="0" 
cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
              <tr> 
                <td width="150" valign="top" 
background="%(ThemeDir)s/left_bg.gif" bgcolor="#7B7CB6"><img 
src="%(ThemeDir)s/tail.gif" width="150" height="23"></td>
                <td valign="top" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" class="body"><h2>TMDA has 
been 
                    successfully installed</h2>
                  <p>Your e-mail account, <tt>your@xxxxxxxxxx</tt>, is now 
guarded 
                    against spam by TMDA.</p>
                  <p>Please note that the following file(s) in your personal 
directory 
                    were overwritten in the process of installing TMDA:</p>
                  <p><tt>/path/to/some/file<br>
                    /path/to/some/file</tt></p>
                  <p>This does not generally indicate a problem. As a 
precaution, 
                    the original contents of these file(s) have been backed up 
                    into the archive:</p>
                  <p><tt>/path/to/the/archive</tt></p>
                  <p>If you choose to uninstall TMDA, these file(s) will be 
restored 
                    to their original contents.</p>
                  <h3>Special instructions from your system administrator:</h3>
                  <p>You will need to change the outgoing mail settings on your 
                    e-mail client to make full use of TMDA's features. Please 
                    change your SMTP port from 25 to 8025. Contact the helpdesk 
                    if you need some assistance in doing this.</p>
                  <p><a href="#">Menu</a></p>
                  </td>
              </tr>
            </table></td>
        </tr>
      </table></td>
  </tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>

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<!--



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<html>
<head>
<title>Cannot Install TMDA</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<link href="%(ThemeDir)s/styles.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
</head>
<body bgcolor="#A6A6B3" text="#000000">
<table width="100%" height="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
  <tr height="135"> 
    <td><table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
        <tr> 
          <td bgcolor="#7B7CB6" width="194"><img src="%(ThemeDir)s/corner.gif" 
width="194" height="135" alt=""></td>
          <td background="%(ThemeDir)s/top_bg.gif" bgcolor="#7B7CB6"><img 
src="%(ThemeDir)s/title.png" alt="TMDA (http://tmda.net) CGI Interface" 
width="327" height="135"></td>
        </tr>
      </table></td>
  </tr>
  <tr> 
    <td valign="top" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><table width="100%" height="100%" 
border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
        <tr>
          <td valign="top" class="matte"><table width="100%" border="0" 
cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
              <tr> 
                <td width="150" valign="top" 
background="%(ThemeDir)s/left_bg.gif" bgcolor="#7B7CB6"><img 
src="%(ThemeDir)s/tail.gif" width="150" height="23"></td>
                <td valign="top" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" class="body"><h2>Cannot 
install 
                    TMDA. </h2>
                  <p>tmda-cgi has not been configured to auto-install TMDA on 
                    user accounts. If you wish to use TMDA, please contact your 
                    system administrator to get help in setting it up.</p>
                  <p><a href="%(Script)s?cmd=logout&SID=%(SID)s">Logout</a></p>
                  </td>
              </tr>
            </table></td>
        </tr>
      </table></td>
  </tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>

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<html>
<head>
<title>Uninstall TMDA</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<link href="../styles.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
</head>
<body bgcolor="#A6A6B3" text="#000000">
<table width="100%" height="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
  <tr height="135"> 
    <td><table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
        <tr> 
          <td bgcolor="#7B7CB6" width="194"><img src="../corner.gif" 
width="194" height="135" alt=""></td>
          <td background="../top_bg.gif" bgcolor="#7B7CB6"><img 
src="../title.png" alt="TMDA (http://tmda.net) CGI Interface" width="327" 
height="135"></td>
        </tr>
      </table></td>
  </tr>
  <tr> 
    <td valign="top" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><table width="100%" height="100%" 
border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
        <tr>
          <td valign="top" class="matte"><table width="100%" border="0" 
cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
              <tr> 
                <td width="150" valign="top" background="../left_bg.gif" 
bgcolor="#7B7CB6"><img src="../tail.gif" width="150" height="23"></td>
                <td valign="top" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" 
class="body"><h2>Uninstall</h2>
                  <p>Would you like to uninstall TMDA from your e-mail account? 
                    Doing this will open you up to being spammed.</p>
                  <p>If you would like to proceed, you must decide how you 
would 
                    like to handle any e-mails still in your pending directory. 
                    You may choose to release or delete them based on how long 
                    they have been sitting in your pending directory.</p>
                                  <form method="post" action="">
                  <table border="1" align="center" cellpadding="20">
                    <tr>
                      <td align="center"><p>Yes, I would like to uninstall 
TMDA.</p>
                          <p>
<select name="select">
                              <option value="0">Don't release anything. Delete 
                              it all.</option>
                              <option value="1">Release all mail pending for 
less 
                              than a day.</option>
                              <option value="3">Release all mail pending for 
less 
                              than three days.</option>
                              <option value="7" selected>Release all mail 
pending 
                              for less than a week.</option>
                              <option value="14">Release all mail pending for 
                              less than two weeks.</option>
                              <option value="30">Release all mail pending for 
                              less than a month.</option>
                              <option value="-1">Release all mail, regardless 
                              of age.</option>
                            </select>
                          </p>
                          <p>I understand that all messages not released will 
                            be deleted.</p>
                          <p> 
                            <input type="submit" value="Uninstall">
                          </p>
                        </td>
                    </tr>
                  </table></form>
                  <p><a href="#">Menu</a></p></td>
              </tr>
              <tr> 
                <td valign="top" background="../left_bg.gif" 
bgcolor="#7B7CB6">&nbsp;</td>
                <td valign="top" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" class="body">&nbsp;</td>
              </tr>
            </table></td>
        </tr>
      </table></td>
  </tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>

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<html>
<head>
<title>Uninstalled!</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<link href="../styles.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
</head>
<body bgcolor="#A6A6B3" text="#000000">
<table width="100%" height="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
  <tr height="135"> 
    <td><table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
        <tr> 
          <td bgcolor="#7B7CB6" width="194"><img src="../corner.gif" 
width="194" height="135" alt=""></td>
          <td background="../top_bg.gif" bgcolor="#7B7CB6"><img 
src="../title.png" alt="TMDA (http://tmda.net) CGI Interface" width="327" 
height="135"></td>
        </tr>
      </table></td>
  </tr>
  <tr> 
    <td valign="top" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><table width="100%" height="100%" 
border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
        <tr>
          <td valign="top" class="matte"><table width="100%" border="0" 
cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
              <tr> 
                <td width="150" valign="top" background="../left_bg.gif" 
bgcolor="#7B7CB6"><img src="../tail.gif" width="150" height="23"></td>
                <td valign="top" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" class="body"><h2>TMDA has 
been 
                    successfully uninstalled</h2>
                  <p>Your e-mail account, <tt>your@xxxxxxxxxx</tt>, is now open 
                    for receiving mail from all sources.</p>
                  <p>Please note that the following file(s) in your personal 
directory 
                    have been restored to the way they were set before you 
installed 
                    TMDA:</p>
                  <p><tt>/path/to/some/file<br>
                    /path/to/some/file</tt></p>
                  <p>Your TMDA configuration has been archived in case you 
change 
                    your mind again. This archive has been stored at:</p>
                  <p><tt>/path/to/the/archive</tt></p>
                  <p>You may delete this file if you choose, but if you do, 
TMDA 
                    can only be reinstalled with its default settings. All list 
                    contents and changes to your filters will be lost.</p>
                  <p>The following symbolic link has been retained to prevent 
                    bounces of mail sent to old addresses:</p>
                  <p><tt>/path/to/your/.qmail-default -&gt; 
/path/to/your/.qmail</tt></p>
                  <p>You can remove this link, but you risk bouncing e-mail 
that 
                    continues to use old addresses.</p>
                  <h3>Special instructions from your system administrator:</h3>
                  <p>You will need to change the outgoing mail settings on your 
                    e-mail client. Please change your SMTP port from 8025 to 
25. 
                    Contact the helpdesk if you need some assistance in doing 
                    this.</p>
                  <p><a href="#">Menu</a></p>
                  </td>
              </tr>
            </table></td>
        </tr>
      </table></td>
  </tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>

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<html>
<head>
<title>Welcome to TMDA!</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<link href="%(ThemeDir)s/styles.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
</head>
<body bgcolor="#A6A6B3" text="#000000">
<table width="100%" height="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
  <tr height="135"> 
    <td><table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
        <tr> 
          <td bgcolor="#7B7CB6" width="194"><img src="%(ThemeDir)s/corner.gif" 
width="194" height="135" alt=""></td>
          <td background="%(ThemeDir)s/top_bg.gif" bgcolor="#7B7CB6"><img 
src="%(ThemeDir)s/title.png" alt="TMDA (http://tmda.net) CGI Interface" 
width="327" height="135"></td>
        </tr>
      </table></td>
  </tr>
  <tr> 
    <td valign="top" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><table width="100%" height="100%" 
border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
        <tr>
          <td valign="top" class="matte"><table width="100%" border="0" 
cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
              <tr> 
                <td width="150" valign="top" 
background="%(ThemeDir)s/left_bg.gif" bgcolor="#7B7CB6"><img 
src="%(ThemeDir)s/tail.gif" width="150" height="23"></td>
                <td valign="top" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" class="body"><h2>Welcome to 
                    TMDA!</h2>
                  <p><a href="http://tmda.sourceforge.net";>TMDA</a> (tagged 
message delivery agent) is the 
                    free answer to your spam woes. Unlike other filters that 
look 
                    for keywords such as &quot;viagra&quot;, 
&quot;sweepstakes&quot;, 
                    and &quot;lesbians&quot;; TMDA uses a simple, but highly 
reliable 
                    method for determining which e-mails come from real 
people... 
                    it asks them!</p>
                  <p><b><img src="%(ThemeDir)s/diagram.png" width="361" 
height="237" align="right">TMDA 
                    asks people if they are real?</b></p>
                  <p>Yes, it is called a &quot;challenge/response method&quot;. 
                    When someone sends mail to a TMDA guarded e-mail address 
for 
                    the first time, instead of just blindly dumping the message 
                    in your in-box, TMDA puts it in a special quarantine area 
                    and sends a &quot;<a 
href="%(Script)s?cmd=conf-example&SID=%(SID)s">challenge</a>&quot; back to 
                    the author. The challenge is just an e-mail that briefly 
explains 
                    the system and asks the user to reply to the challenge 
(this 
                    is the &quot;response&quot; part). Once TMDA receives the 
                    response, it releases the original message from quarantine 
                    and adds the sender to a list of people from which it will 
                    accept mail. Any future messages from that user will be 
accepted 
                    without another challenge.</p>
                  <p><b>How does that help?</b></p>
                  <p>Spammers typically put fake e-mail addresses on their 
spam. 
                    They don't want you to reply to them. The address they use 
                    is bad, so they never receive TMDA's challenge, they never 
                    get to respond, the message is never released from 
quarantine, 
                    and it never makes it to your in-box. Instead, it sits 
around 
                    and gathers dust until the system throws it away.</p>
                  <p><b>Great! How do I get it!</b></p>
                  <p>&quot;Getting it&quot; is easy, simply click the link at 
                    the end of this page to install the system. But before you 
                    do, please take a few minutes and look over the following 
                    FAQs (frequently asked questions). TMDA is a radically 
different 
                    way to handle your mail, so it is best to understand some 
                    of the finer details before you proceed.</p>
                  <p><b>FAQs:</b></p>
                  <p><a href="%(Script)s?cmd=faq&SID=%(SID)s#Free">Is it really 
free?</a><br>
                    <a href="%(Script)s?cmd=faq&SID=%(SID)s#Annoy">Won't this 
challenge/response thing annoy people 
                    who send me mail?</a><br>
                    <a href="%(Script)s?cmd=faq&SID=%(SID)s#Quarantine">Can I 
look at the messages in quarantine to make 
                    sure I'm not missing something important?</a><br>
                    <a href="%(Script)s?cmd=faq&SID=%(SID)s#Automated">What 
about my mailing list and joke of the day? 
                    How will that get past TMDA?</a><br>
                    <a href="%(Script)s?cmd=faq&SID=%(SID)s#Replies">What about 
people I send mail to, do they get 
                    challenged as well?</a><br>
                    <a href="%(Script)s?cmd=faq&SID=%(SID)s#Uninstall">What if 
I change my mind? Can I get rid of TMDA 
                    easily?</a></p>
                  <table width="100%">
                    <tr align="center"> 
                      <td><a href="%(Script)s?cmd=install&SID=%(SID)s"><b>Yes, 
sign me up!</b></a></td>
                      <td><b><a href="%(Script)s?cmd=logout&SID=%(SID)s">No, 
log me out.</a></b></td>
                    </tr>
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