Also sprach Alan Connor (Tue 05 Aug 02003 at 05:43:58PM -0700): > <snip /> > I know that some folks here have said that all the headers can be > forged, but they are either ignorant or lying. Please, support this with something other than your opinion, or desist. > I have NEVER gotten spam from a forged passlisted domain address that > got past other tests based on a mail solicited by me from that domain. O, I'm sorry, Alan, so you *DO* use _other_ tools to combat spam? Please, explain . . . > I have almost 3 dozen domains on my passlist. Most have never sent any > mail to me....But I have mailed them and gotten a response that allowed > me to write a simple filter that will dump any mail whose headers don't > reasonably conform to the pattern. So, basically, *ALL* mail from those domains will pass -- UN-challenged -- by your C-R system? And, _none_ of those emails can possibly contain spam? > That's the thing about CR systems: You focus on what you WANT, rather > than what you don't want. How does this jive with your usage of ``other tests'' -- or, isn't C-R adequate to the task of providing you with ``what you WANT'' ??? > > I realise that Challenge Response provides a > > mechanism to allow the correspondent to verify their identity but can > > equally recognise that this may sometimes be inappropriate. > > Once again, CR has NOTHING to do with verifying identity. It just > requires strangers to give their real address if they want to talk to > you. Please, *WHICH* is my real address? I have and regularly use eight (8) email addresses, depending on where I'm at, in which client's facility, on which ISP's network, &c. I wish that I did not need more than one email address; but, for me, that is *NOT* possible. So, Alan, please, tell me which address is my ``real address'' !?!? And, suppose that that address in the headers of this post was used to communicate with you, and then I used another address in effort to communicate with you, which is my ``real address'' and which my UN-real address? O, and please, please, use your ``real address'' while posting to this list, and can you try just a little harder to follow threads? Thank you . . . -- Best Regards, mds mds resource 877.596.8237 - Dare to fix things before they break . . . - Our capacity for understanding is inversely proportional to how much we think we know. The more I know, the more I know I don't know . . . --
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