Wednesday, September 17, 2003, 11:42:51 AM, you wrote:
I take the same stance as Robert... I do not respond to any C/R
messages as a matter of policy. I put it in the same category as
Reading Confirmation requests, acknowledging that there are major
differences of course. No thanks, I'm not a spammer and you need to
figure out the difference. We need to find a decent way but so far
for me the C/R system causes more harm than good and opens up DoS
opportunities if widely adopted.
-tom
RLM> 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.
RLM> They're all theft of service. For every piece of unwanted mail they
RLM> block, they send another piece of mail to someone who is, more often than
RLM> not, completely unrelated to the message (because the spammer forged that
RLM> person's address).
RLM> If C/R becomes widespread and a spammer forges your address, you will be
RLM> drowned in tens of thousands of challenges to messages you never sent.
RLM> It's another step down the road to "I don't give a damn about how much I
RLM> annoy everyone else on the Internet as long as my problems are minimized"
RLM> -- "SpamBully", indeed.
RLM> As a matter of principle, I don't respond to C/R systems, even if it's
RLM> someone I know. Maybe when they lose some more mail, they'll stop using
RLM> it.
RLM> There is a better way to design something like this, which is to reject
RLM> mail from all senders who aren't on a whitelist at the SMTP stage, with
RLM> the reject message explaining how the sender can add his or her address
RLM> to the whitelist. Or just file it in a separate folder for later review
RLM> without any sort of challenge at all. But of course, that would
RLM> inconvenience C/R users who want to have it both ways by making other
RLM> people jump through hoops to filter their mail for them AND receiving a
RLM> copy of the mail so they can dig it up manually for senders who refuse to
RLM> do so....
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