Re: Stopping spam
On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 11:59:11PM -0500, dman wrote:
> On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 12:33:00AM -0400, Andy Saxena wrote:
> | On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 08:24:18PM -0700, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote:
> | > On Wed, 15 May 2002, Andy Saxena wrote:
> | >
> | > > Just curious, but does anybody have any thoughts on TMDA?
> | >
> | > What exactly is TMDA?
> |
> | Tagged Mail Delivery Agent.
> |
> | http://www.tmda.sourceforge.net
>
> Don't slap a "www." on every hostname.
> (its http://tmda.sourceforge.net)
Hehe, okay, I admit - I thought about verifying it for a second, and
didn't. My mistake.
> I won't email someone who uses TMDA. If they really want my mail then
> they'll accept it. I'm not "subscribing" to every mailbox out there.
> Besides, how hard is it to make a bot to auto-respond to it (and get
> the spam whitelisted)? Any anti-spam efforts must be made in two
> places :
> the source -- don't send spam and don't allow your system to be
> used to send spam
> the destination -- hueristics (or human) based scanning to
> identify messages
>
> The only perfect solution is a social one in which people stop being
> rude (sending spam).
>
> -D
Like you said, "The only perfect solution..." We just don't seem to live
in a perfect world. If we did, everything would be RFC-compliant,
monopoly-free and Debianized.
Just a thought!
-Andy
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