At 9/17/03 9:47 AM, bill@daze.net wrote:
>Spambully is one of the C/R systems giving C/R a bad name.
They're all theft of service. For every piece of unwanted mail they
block, they send another piece of mail to someone who is, more often than
not, completely unrelated to the message (because the spammer forged that
person's address).
If C/R becomes widespread and a spammer forges your address, you will be
drowned in tens of thousands of challenges to messages you never sent.
It's another step down the road to "I don't give a damn about how much I
annoy everyone else on the Internet as long as my problems are minimized"
-- "SpamBully", indeed.
As a matter of principle, I don't respond to C/R systems, even if it's
someone I know. Maybe when they lose some more mail, they'll stop using
it.
There is a better way to design something like this, which is to reject
mail from all senders who aren't on a whitelist at the SMTP stage, with
the reject message explaining how the sender can add his or her address
to the whitelist. Or just file it in a separate folder for later review
without any sort of challenge at all. But of course, that would
inconvenience C/R users who want to have it both ways by making other
people jump through hoops to filter their mail for them AND receiving a
copy of the mail so they can dig it up manually for senders who refuse to
do so....
-- Robert L Mathews, Tiger Technologies
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