On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 05:00:32PM +0200, Bas Zoetekouw scribbled: > Hi Marek! Hello, [snip] > > > > Selfish isn't the word for it. I get damn near as many bogus bounces as > > > > spams. > > > > > > Yeah. I would kill every administrator which sets notify for sender > > > about viruses to the address from From: header with a pleasure ;) > > > Well, that's a bit different story, isn't it? > > No, it's not. Both automaticaly send out unsollicited messages to > innocent 3th parties. That's called spamming in my dictionary. You send me a mail. My TMDA generates a response which is sent on _my_ behalf. I think if you write me, you're expecting a response - how is that unsolicited? Besides, you can easily treat the TMDA challenges as spam and discard them automatically - much easier to do than filtering spam. And as I wrote in the other mail, the two cases aren't the same IMO. There is a small chance the mail any of us sends will ever be scored above 0.0 by SpamAssassin and friends and, therefore, you can safely filter and discard all the TMDA challenges out - since the only TMDA challenges would be coming as a result of spam that impersonates you and you don't care about such mail. So the spammer sends the mail as you, some tmda generates the challenge, your filter dumps the challenge and you never get to see it. Traffic? Much less of it than people sending graphics, movies, Excel spreadsheets, voice mail etc. So, the way I see it, with little effort all parties could be satisfied. regards, marek
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