[binc] wiki defacing and email challenges

Giuliano Gavazzi <[email protected]> Thu, 24 Nov 2005 02:33:02 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.mail.imap.binc.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hello, I just subscribed to the list to pass a message to Andreas  
Hanssen since I tried to contact him but was blocked by a stupid  
challenge/response.

The message was just letting him know that I had noticed that the  
wiki page

http://lifewithbincimap.org/index.php/Outlook/OutLook

has been defaced very recently.

But now my point is another, since I mailed Mr Hanssen I received two  
challenges from his system to confirm that my message was not spam.  
This is a very uncivilised way of protecting oneself from spam, as it  
creates scatter spam to innocent third parties whose address might  
have been forged in the original spam. This is bad if it is sent out  
once, and it is worse if it is sent twice, as in Mr Hanssen case.
(A third challenge will go straight to spamcop).


I will never reply to a challenge, so this is my only method to let  
Mr Hanssen know.


Thank you and sorry if this might sound a bit harsh.

Giuliano