Re: Look at these update from M$ Corporation.
> From cjwatson@debian.org Fri Aug 1 11:15:16 2003
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> On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 02:38:10AM -0700, Alan Connor wrote:
> > I should have added that debian.org is on my pass list. The domain name.
> >
> > Anyone mailing me from any address there wouldn't even know I was running
> > a C-R system.
>
> A fair proportion of my spam comes from debian.org addresses; spammers
> are becoming more adept at forging sender addresses, frequently by
> pulling addresses from e.g. web pages and using one address as the
> source and the others as the target, so the recipients are likely to
> know the alleged sender.
>
> I predict that challenge-response systems will become increasingly less
> useful as time goes on due to this trend.
>
Once again you demonstrate your ignorance of, or prejudice against C-R systems
Please QUIT mis-informing people.
Mail from debian.org to me must COME from debian.org...
Don't tell me you have never heard of Received: headers? (etc.)
> --
> Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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>
Alan
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