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Re: Challenge-response mail filters considered harmful (was Re: Look at these update from M$ Corporation.)



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On Sun, Aug 03, 2003 at 05:13:26AM +0100, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> on Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 04:57:30PM -0700, Alan Connor (alanconnor@earthlink.net) wrote:
> > > From aaron@core-dev.com Thu Jul 31 16:34:18 2003
> 
> > 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.
> 
> Bullshit.

Challenge-response breaks the reliable transmission requirement of the
SMTP RFCs.  Alan:  FIX YOUR SERVER.

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