Re: Spam fights
On Thu, 10 Jun 2004 18:21, Jaroslaw Tabor <jarek@srv.pl> wrote:
> We are allowing all emails from whitelits.
Who is "we" in this context? Individual users or mailing list administrators?
> For unknown sender, automated confirmation request is send. If
For mailing lists this can be achieved by making the list subscriber-only.
For individual accounts such behaviour is very anti-social as it results in
confirmation messages being sent in response to virus messages. This means
that even though my anti-virus software is updated regularly I still get hit
by viruses through those stupid confirmation messages!
My response to these scumbags who send me the confirmation messages is that if
they are on a mailing list I'm on then I black-list their email address if
it's known (or their mail server if their email address is not clear). If a
confirmation message appears to be in response to a virus then I respond to
it. Let the scumbag get another copy of the virus...
> I'm planning to develop this feauture, but It will be nice to hear from
> what you thing about this idea.
Don't do it. Confirmation systems are just as bad as the problems that they
try to solve.
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