[Mimedefang] Catching the porn spams

Minica, Nelson (EDS) Nelson.Minica at RailAmerica.com
Thu Sep 9 12:06:25 EDT 2004


Easy?  Maybe.  But at least it would have verified the spammer's e-mail
address/domain/IP in a world where 99.9999% of spam hides behind fake
e-mail addresses and zombie machines.  Like SPF is supposed to do.

With a whitelist based system of course the user has to manage their
whitelist if they want to receive e-mail from notification systems.  C/R
is only one piece of a whitelist based system.

-----Original Message-----
From: mimedefang-bounces at lists.roaringpenguin.com
[mailto:mimedefang-bounces at lists.roaringpenguin.com] On Behalf Of
WBrown at e1b.org

And this would be very easy for the spammers to write mail systems to
look 
for the challenge, and respond.  The only ones that make it difficult
for 
automated response are the ones with an image that has to be typed, but 
many of those cause problems for people with vision problems.  And they 
break down when you use text only mail readers.

What about some end-user type that signs up for legitimate email 
notifications.  Who is supposed to check for the challenges from the EUs

that don't remember to add the notification system to their white list?



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