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See authd.org for details.

authd .. was a kick ass mail filter for its time. Unfortunately, spammers eventually got smarter, and better applications (such as SpamAssassin) have become increasingly neccesary. The authd.org site has details on the history behind it, as well as the last public release of it.

Authd's primary goal was to refuse mail before even seeing the message body. The state of mail these days, is that .. you really need to look at the message bodies any more before determining ham or spam. as such, authd any more is nothing more than an alternative ACL system for SMTP, and hardly a spam deterrent.

A time not so long ago, the online world was a very different place.  The online community was for the most part a network of amateur-ran bulletin board systems (BBS's), and the Internet was a place for scientists, geeks, students, and those with money.  Back then, a 56k line could carry the Usenet newsgroups and move email, as well as provide telnet 24 hours a day, and cost hundreds of dollars..  The amateur community interfaced various applications with their BBS's, to bring the internet email and newsgroups to their BBS's, in order to offer a low cost way of getting email to their users.