Famous Hacker Uses ChallengeResponses 4253

I forgot that you allow two chances.

I have actually seen this before, and it is partly responsible for my belief in the dilemma I presented.

This is not what your automated challenge says in the part that I didn't delete. Perhaps you should make that clearer. It seems to indicate that responding with the string of Xs would get my address blocked, just as not responding would.

Upon further thought, there is a way out of the dilemma, should it arise; that is to send a legitimate message and respond to the challenge to that, while ignoring the one generated by the spam.

Bernstein also uses spam-filtering before sending challenges for whatever gets through.

Or I am neither.

That is my real name and my normal mailbox. I have never tried to hide my name or address in over a decade of posting to Usenet. I am willing to believe that "Alan Connor" is your real name. I am not willing to

True. What does that have to do with me?

True again. That address will be 209.187.114.115 in an address block worldpath.net has authority for. (There is no corresponding A record.) (FYI, it's "his-her-its".)

At first this puzzled me. What does whois have to do with any of this? But then the frothing at the mouth you entered into after quoting my sig made me realize that you were probably put out because ISP, worldpath.net contracts with supernews.com instead of providing its own newsserver:

news.worldpath.net. 5D IN CNAME corp.supernews.com. corp.supernews.com. 1M IN A 216.168.3.44

That's why the Message-ID indicates corp.supernews.com while my address is at worldpath.net.

You are welcome to write me, and I will send you an acceptably short plain text response (I too prefer plain text), and you can then examine the Received fields in the header to your heart's content. I would write you, and put up with the C-R, but I can't because you don't even provide a munged but human-intelligible address in your posts.

-- John Wingate Mathematics is the art which teaches --Oscar Chisini