Re: SPAM(RB) 0.0: Re: rsyncing in the background

Greg Black writes:
> On 2006-12-14, Rick Baartman wrote:
> 
> > ****************************************************************
> > * This is an automatic response message from Rick's cOmPuTeR%%
> > ****************************************************************
> > 
> > Rick Baartman did not see your message yet because his spam 
> > filter is quite stringent.
> > 
> > Please put his full name -- Rick or Richard Baartman
> > anywhere in the message body, and then kindly send it again.
> > Sorry for the inconvenience.
> 
> Better than pretending to be sorry, wake up to yourself and
> teach your stupid filter not to spam mailing lists with this
> nonsense.

Even better -- ditch Challenge/Response filtering, and stop relying on
third parties to take care of filtering your spam:

http://www.spamcop.net/fom-serve/cache/329.html
http://www.politechbot.com/p-04746.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Challenge-response_spam_filtering#Criticisms
http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Mail/challenge-response.html
http://www.mneylon.com/blog/archives/2005/11/09/why-challenge-response-is-a-bad-idea/
http://taint.org/2005/09/11/012434a.html
http://use.perl.org/~Matts/journal/12187
http://richi.co.uk/blog/2006/11/pc-worlds-steve-bass-repents.html

--j.