On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 04:58:48PM +0100, Russell Coker wrote: > On Mon, 2 Dec 2002 16:39, Jan Niehusmann wrote:
> > Time will tell. I fear that some day, the only way to use email > > productively is to block all email with invalid sender adresses. And I > If an auto-responder can handle such messages then spammers will just > use such auto-responders and therefore the spam filter will be almost > useless. You are missing the point: That scheme doesn't directly block spam, it only assures that a mail has a valid Reply-To:-address. Which may (or may not) stop spam. Time will tell. > Also there's the issue of two people having such filters trying to > communicate with each other. Of course such programs need careful design to prevent loops. I don't say this is the only solution, I don't even claim it solves the spam problem at all. But I think it's a sensible experiment. After all, it may work. Jan
