Re: Challenge-response mail filters considered harmful

[Alan Connor <alanconnor@earthlink.net>]

> From ats@acm.org Thu Aug  7 16:17:34 2003
> 
> 
> Alan Connor <alanconnor@earthlink.net> writes:
> 
> > I should have noted that the password would be stripped from the mail
> > before it was posted. Could do that with SED!
> 
> Actually, I meant, what do you do when someone spams debian-user?
> You let debian-user, through, right?  
> 
> -- 
> Alan Shutko <ats@acm.org> - I am the rocks.
> Get out the piano you stupid furry bucktoothed gits!
> 

I read the list off the newsfeed. VERY little spam comes through there.
Earthlink is quite good about that.


I administer  a mailing list,  and no spam EVER gets on it.


Some people just won't accept that the traditional approach to  spamblocking

doesn't, and never will, work.

Alan C.


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