Spambuttbuttin Takes Top AntiSpam Honors

Sure. Michael will run his mouth.

What he won't do is participate in a public test of Spambuttbuttin versus my little mickey mouse spam program.

Which works MUCH better than SA.

I wonder (mildly) what kind of garbage he's posting...

The stock spammer lie is this: Challenge-Response Systems flood the Internet with Challenge-Responses that end up in innocent people's mailboxes.

Wrong: The conventional spam filter stage in the System kills 99+% of the spam. No C-Rs are sent for those mails, which are simply dumped.

Wrong again: Most spammers take great pains to avoid using real domains and addresses in their false From headers, because that's forging someone's address and adds another charge to their crimes, and causes even more problems:

People see that From address in spam and complain about it. Then the spammer has TWO people peeed off at them: The original victim and the person whose address they forged who is being accused unjustly of being a spammer.

The most common response to a C-R is from one's own MTA (or that of one's ISP), telling you that no such domain exists. The C-R is never mailed.

I get maybe 200 non-pbuttlisted mails a day, right now, and my program might send out one C-R that actually makes it to the Internet in a typical day.

I've NEVER had a complaint from anyone about my C-R system operating in the real world.

AC

-- URLS in headers. See the elrav1 directory on my website for more C-R information.