Fighting email spam and antiUBE pointers 183

Thanks anyway. I don't have a spam problem.

Funny, but I found the solution by reading up on Challenge-Responses after first encountering the concept in a post of yours with the same subject as this one.

It turned out that whoever created that Challenge-Response webpage that you referred people to was either grossly misinformed or lying about them.

It was just garbage. Which is rather shocking, considering that it was on the procmail.org website. Most of the information there is pretty good.

But I guess that one must accept the fact that a good many of the procmail experts are bound to be spammers. It is a common mail filter that a competent spammer would need to know how to beat.

(And you are not speaking for procmail.org here, or any organization, for that matter. At least that's what it says in your headers.)

Fortunately, procmail can be used to build a good Challenge-Respo nse system too, as I have done.

Challenge-Response systems are wonderful. The spammers and trolls cannot beat them and you don't have to be a geek to use them effectively.

Thanks, "Jari".

Anyone else who is interested in getting spam and trollmail out of their lives can read this brief introduction to Challenge-Responses:

then continue their education with the help of a good search engine.

Note: I don't read the posts of "Sam" or his numerous sockpuppets or his 'friends', nor any responses to them.

Alan

-- see also: links.html and newsfilter.html Other URLS of possible interest in my headers.