Re: Bouncing Spam

Jason <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.pine.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Ross wrote:
> What do you all think of the following:
> 
> Foiling Spam with an Email Password System
> <http://www.uwasa.fi/~ts/info/spamfoil.html>
> Copyright  1999-2002 by Prof. Timo Salmi
> Last modified Mon 18-Feb-2002 07:00

If you're going to do that I would suggest a challenge-response system
instead, like TMDA.  That way once someone confirms their address they
never go through that process again.  There's no password to remember to
include - all they do is respond to the automatic message and they are
whitelisted indefinitely.  So far I've never had a spammer bother to
get through TMDA.  It's not worth their trouble and my friends haven't
had a problem with it either, though I only use it on my more spam-prone
addresses.


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-Jason

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