On Tuesday 17 May 2005 14:42, Henry Yen wrote: > Unfortunately, the ISP where I work receives thousands of bogus > challenge e-mails, due to (trivially) forged headers. These are > effectively just as bad as spam. > > Challenge-Reponse systems, in the short term, do not stop spam, > but merely gate it to innocent third-parties (in the forged header).
personal c/r based anti spam filters such as TMDA: sure, they are evil, asocial and among the worst things on the planet. but I never heard anyone complaining about C/R for mailing list subscription. on the contrary everyone seems to agree that it is a good thing. So why shouldn't that work well for outside postings, too? Regards, Andreas -- ------------------------ [ SECURITY NOTICE ] ------------------------ To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net, [EMAIL PROTECTED] For your security, [EMAIL PROTECTED] digitally signed this message on 17 May 2005 at 14:52:21 UTC. Verify this digital signature at http://www.ciphire.com/verify. ------------------- [ CIPHIRE DIGITAL SIGNATURE ] ------------------- Q2lwaGlyZSBTaWcuAVdiYWN1bGEtdXNlcnNAbGlzdHMuc291cmNlZm9yZ2UubmV0LCBoZ W5yeUBhZWdpc2luZm9zeXMuY29tAGFqQGNpcGhpcmVsYWJzLmNvbQBlbWFpbCBib2R5AD 4CAAB8AHwAAAABAAAAJQWKQj4CAACzAQACAAIAAgAghZSFWfYeisbzljA2qz+9FGrRjKr LtBrgUie1aQqxAIcBAFxY4npAnfA18dOZSdJF/KrhYaAgetZ31TP/j/rFyoe9MHNKodYy cWubBa3musD7wYzXccXImfwyQlrlJgssSxWmU2lnRW5k --------------------- [ END DIGITAL SIGNATURE ] --------------------- ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by Oracle Space Sweepstakes Want to be the first software developer in space? Enter now for the Oracle Space Sweepstakes! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7412&alloc_id=16344&op=click _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
