Re: [cobalt-users] TMDA

[Jeff Lasman <blists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday 15 December 2003 03:25 pm, Wayne wrote:

> I am a
> happy camper now and spend less time dealing with the spam.

I'm glad it works for you, Wayne.  I, and a lot of other admins, block 
all challenge/response sites.

In general, if anyone using a return address on my servers tries to 
contact a challenge/response site user directly they'll never see the 
challenge you the user will never see their email.

For you, since you run your own challenge response site, unless I try to 
contact you directly and get a challenge/response email from you I'll 
never see your message and I'll never block you, so users having return 
addresses on my servers will not be affected unless they don't know 
what to do with the challenge-response email.

Why do we do this?  Because we see the problems with challenge/response 
mechanisms.  Evidently you don't, and that's fine.  Surely you realize 
that every method of dealing with spam has the risk of blocking you 
from parts of the Internet.

Jeff
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