Fighting email spam and antiUBE pointers 184

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I've reinstated the other groups.

What YOU think is questionable is obviously questionable.

So, "Rick". Are you a spammer or a troll, or both?

There are many webpages like that. Spammers (and those that benefit from their crimes) and trolls HATE Challenge-Responses.

Because they can't beat them.

And as we all know, any slimeball can post anything on the Usenet or the Web.

(You can find a thousand websites offering 'proof-positive' that people are regularly abducted by little grey humanoids in interstellar spacecraft.)

Yet major ISPs, like Earthlink, have offered Challenge-Response protection to their clients for years:

They call their Challenge-Response system: "SpamBlocker".

There are many such programs available for linux and windows.

And one of the Internet's leading gurus, Professor Timo Salmi, has been using and advocating the use of Challenge-Responses for years:

They are also ratified by the RFCs:

RFC 3834: Recommendations for Automatic Responses to Electronic Mail

Rick. Like any effing troll, you can post whatever you want on the Usenet or the Web.

That's fine.

But you'll have to stay out of my mailboxes.

That's an order, not a request, and I can enforce it.

Note: The system described in contact.html on my website is not a typical Challenge-Response system. It's something I worked out because I was being mercilessly harbutted by trolls and spammers.

Here's an introduction to C-R systems:

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

Alanc

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