Re: [tlug] challenge-response spam filtering

[Godwin Stewart <gstewart@example.com>]

And Thus Spake Charles Muller <acmuller@example.com> (on Thu, 03 Jul 2003
19:55:20 +0900 (JST)):

> Is this something that is rapidly becoming popular at the network admin
> level?

Not if the network admin has more than half a neuron between hir ears.

Since 99.999% of the time the Return-Path:, From: and Reply-To: headers in a
spam e-mail are forged, the C/R request is going to be fired off to an
innocent bystander (if the spammer is hoe-jobbing someone) or to a
non-existent address (thus causing a bounce message which will trigger off
yet another C/R request).

Challenge-Response is totally brainless IMO.

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