On Sun, 2004-12-05 at 02:23, Andreas Barth wrote: > * Stephen Birch (sgbirch@imsmail.org) [041205 09:10]: > > FairUCE is a spam filter that prevents spam from reaching the > > recipient's inbox by verifying the identity of the sender. It will stop > > the vast majority of spam without the use of a content filter, and > > without requiring a probable spam or bulk folder that needs to be > > checked periodically. > > Is the name FairUCE or fairuse? And, what is the major advantage over > e.g. using SPF? (In other words: In which way is the verification done?) I dug up https://secure.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/fairuce: "FairUCE tries to find a relationship between the envelope sender's domain and the IP address of the client... If such a relationship cannot be found, FairUCE attempts to find one by sending a user-customizable challenge/response... A future version will incorporate Sender Policy Framework (SPF) or similar sender identification systems..." So not only does it fail to stop spam in any useful way, it doesn't even fail to do so according to the standard, and it sends out more email noise while doing so. -- Joe Wreschnig <piman@debian.org>
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