Re: Challenge-response mail filters considered harmful (by spammers)

[Alan Connor <alanconnor@earthlink.net>]

> From ats@acm.org Sun Aug  3 22:34:48 2003
> 
> 
> Alan Connor <alanconnor@earthlink.net> writes:
> 
> > The sig would look like this:
> >
> > --
> >   Please include this signature in any response to this mail. Thank You.
> >
> >   030303284857463625397654736322637485969437549596969685747
> 
> That would be a bad implementation.  First, that's not a valid
> signature delimiter.  Second, if it were, many MUAs strip off
> signatures automatically in quoted replies.
> 
> 

My mistake. I was exhausted. It goes at the top. 

It is easy to use formail to generate a unique message ID...Do you think
it would be practical to use these instead? I don't know whether they
would be stripped or not. You have the option of using the Message-ID
header, or the Resent-Message-ID header...


Alan



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