Re: Challenge-response mail filters considered harmful (was Re: Look
On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 09:39:23AM -0700, Alan Connor wrote:
> > From csousa@tvtel.pt Thu Aug 7 09:33:53 2003
> >
> >
> > On Thu, 07 Aug 2003 08:10:30 -0500 John Hasler wrote:
> > > Carlos Sousa writes:
> > > > Do you also have an account at my service provider? Or is it that
> > > > you're just incapable of setting up your mail system to show the
> > > > real origin of your emails? Anyway, you're incurring in mail
> > > > forgery.
> > >
> > > No he isn't. His "From:" line reads "From: alanc". As it contains no
> > > domain your service provider's MTA adds its own. He's still doing
> > > something stupid, but it isn't forgery.
> >
> > Yes, I was aware of that. It's still forgery, though, in the sense that,
> > through his ignorance, he is causing his email to appear to others as
> > coming from non-existent addresses, in spite of having already been
> > warned about it several times since the start of this discussion.
> >
> > --
> > Carlos Sousa
> > http://vbc.dyndns.org/
> >
>
> The problem has been fixed since yesterday, which makes this post of yours
> libelous. Which is the greater crime? An inadvertantly misconfigured MUA
> or libel?
Since his mail was in response to one of your misconfigured emails, it
isn't libelous. Sorry. I suppose you could retain a lawyer if you're
serious about making a libel claim.
Say, is your broken threading an inadvertant misconfiguration, or did
you break it on purpose?
> And pray tell just who are you to warn anyone about anything?
He's got as much right to speak here as you, I imagine, this being an
open forum and all.
However, since you brought it up, who are _you_? What's your
experience? Where's your resume and references? Have you audited all
this code you've written for race conditions, deadlocks, and the like?
IOW, why should I download your software which you blithely claim
solves all spam problems until the end of time? If I had no opinion
regarding CR, I still would think twice about downloading yuour
software. Your conversations here do not encourage me to believe that
you would handle bug reports in a fashion pleasing to me. ("The
software does not work in this situation." "Yes it does! You do not
understand the software." "...")
> Hot air doesn't bother ME at all.
That is manifestly apparent.
--
Nathan Norman - Incanus Networking mailto:nnorman@incanus.net
The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that
they be properly armed.
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