On Fri, May 27, 2016 at 11:07:44AM -0700, Jay Hennigan wrote:
> CAPTCHA could potentially fix it, but that is sure to raise
> objections as being too inconvenient for list operators playing the
> numbers game.
Captchas are also not a valid anti-abuse mechanism: they have been quite
thoroughly beat
On 5/29/16 11:29 AM, Rich Kulawiec wrote:
On Fri, May 27, 2016 at 11:07:44AM -0700, Jay Hennigan wrote:
CAPTCHA could potentially fix it, but that is sure to raise
objections as being too inconvenient for list operators playing the
numbers game.
Captchas are also not a valid anti-abuse mechani
On Fri, 27 May 2016 11:07:44 -0700
Jay Hennigan wrote:
> HTML "Click-to-confirm" has been shown in the recent discussion to be
> subject to false positives by email scanning software that follows links.
I feel like this is the result of poor implementation on the part of the
list operator. RFC2
On 2016-05-29 12:29, Rich Kulawiec wrote:
On Fri, May 27, 2016 at 11:07:44AM -0700, Jay Hennigan wrote:
>CAPTCHA could potentially fix it, but that is sure to raise
>objections as being too inconvenient for list operators playing the
>numbers game.
Captchas are also not a valid anti-abuse mecha
Oh $DIETY, can I borrow that first paragraph?
There are auction sites where you can buy free email addresses by the thousands
for a single digit number of dollars.
CAPTCHAs have been thoroughly PWNed.
Even SMS tokens can be gamed if you are not very, very careful.
Aloha,
Michael.
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Michael J
Sounds like Synacor (who hosts cableone.net) has had issues again. From our
email server logs:
Open (64.8.70.47) Error 0sec (421 4.3.4 allocated resources
exceeded)
Open (64.8.70.47) Error 4sec (399 TCP Read failed (Connection reset
by peer after 4 seconds) 4 sec)
First log entry
