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DOT net , and To: alanconnor AT earthlink DOT net , how does your C-R system hold up? If you're using...
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They claim to want to end spam, but they do exactly what the post office does with junk mail: They facilitate it.
Really? I have been using this aliase for 42 years and everybody knows me by it. Sure would be a shame to have to change it now because you...
They just aren't HONEST about it. Instead of promoting the use of Challenge-Response Systems, which would truly end email if only half the people used them (or less), they promote the use of strategies and software that the spammers can easily beat.
Another strategy that would be even better than Challenge-Response Systems would be to re-write the SMTP protocol, cutting out all the loop-holes that spammers use.
But until that is done, Challenge-Response Systems are the only type of filters that really eliminate spam, because they reject anonymous mail.
Which is what MTA's in the SMTP network should do....
That's why Earthlink and other ISPs are offering them to their clients now, and why the famous hacker, Kevin Mitnick (now one of the world's leading computer security consultants) use them, and all sorts of interesting software is being produced that utilizes Challenge-Responses:
www.deerfield.com-products-visnetic-mailserver-spampreventionwww.tvtechnology.com-featuresNet-soup-ffbnetsoup-01.07.04.shtml
And that's just for starters. There are a LOT more.
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