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Re: Fwd: Please confirm your message



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On Tue, 03 Dec 2002 05:12, Jan Niehusmann wrote:

> 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.

But if we can work out that it won't work now, we can save ourselves some time 
and hassle.  Specifically, these autoresponders demand that the spammers 
either validate an email address or use a known good 'from' address.  So they 
will - when spamming someone harvested from debian-devel, they'll set the 
from address to debian-devel.

Personally I think bayesian based spam filters are a godsend.  They're a bit 
naive in places such as being unigram or bigram based, but that'll probably 
get fixed in version two.  And already they are still amazingly good.

Corrin
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