Re: TMDA considered harmful
On 2004-07-13, Paul Johnson penned:
>
> So, in essence, TMDA's unfortunate creep in popularity is extremely
> harmful because it threatens to very quickly double or triple the
> damage spam causes.
Too bad I haven't found a filter program that comes anywhere close to
approaching the simplicity of tmda. The rules are *so freaking easy* to
implement. This is a good thing.
I don't use c/r, but I do use tmda's pending-message mechanism. Instead
of challenging questionable messages, I "hold" them, which is an option
allowing me to leave them in the queue till I feel like dealing with
them. I then have a cron job to periodically tell me if there's
anything new in it. I like this setup and the fact that I can whitelist
an address straight from the queue interface. Out of all the messages I
receive, only a handful get stuck in my pending queue, anyway -- I have
my filters and whitelists set well enough that the amount of
questionable messages is tiny.
--
monique
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