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Re: Look at these update from M$ Corporation.



> From cjwatson@debian.org Fri Aug  1 02:00:32 2003
> 
> 
> On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 01:36:14AM -0500, Jesse Meyer wrote:
> > On Thu, 31 Jul 2003, Alan Connor wrote:
> > > Spam is UCE (unsolicited commercial email) and stopping it can only
> > > be done with a Challenge-Response mail program, such as the one I
> > > put together. There isn't ANY other approach that works.
> > 
> > Spam tends to be an automated, bulk emailing of addresses, but not all
> 
> Yup. For example, I can guarantee you that the people operating the
> Debian bug tracking system don't always bother to respond to
> "challenges". If people don't want BTS mail, that's their problem; we
> don't have time to babysit that sort of thing.
> 
> -- 
> Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
> 
> 
> 

Anyone with a C-R program would just put the bug-tracking addresses on
their pass list.


That's how C-R programs work. The bug-track folks wouldn't even know it
was operating.


Alan


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      For Linux/Bash users: Eliminate spam with the Mailbox-Sentry-Program. 
         See: http://tinyurl.com/inpd  for the scripts and docs.
     



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