Re: The end of an era? DVD Decryptor shut down....

From: Grumble (devnull_at_kma.eu.org)
Date: 06/17/05 

Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 10:47:14 +0200

Martin Heffels wrote:

> My ISP has this near perfect feature where I have a whitelist of
> trusted e-mail addresses, and if you are not on it, and send me an
> e-mail for the first time, you have to click a link to confirm the
> e-mail. Spammers never do that, so that means that about 90% ends up
> in the waiting bin.

Challenge/response spam filtering is not a responsible practice.

Spammers often put legitimate email addresses of innocent parties
in the From: field. You end up spamming all these people with this
automatic reply strategy.

Further discussion of this topic:
http://www.spamcop.net/fom-serve/cache/329.html

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