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Earthlink Deploying Challenge-Response Anti-Spam System
deliasee writes "The Washington Post reports that Earthlink is preparing to offer new spam filter technology that requires sender authentication. AOL is still concerned that such technologies will put too much burden on consumers." The day after it's deployed, every legitimate mailing list on the planet will get challenges from all the Earthlink subscribers...
I think forged headers are the calamity of the inprocess SMTP transfer mechanism. If we can liberate the dynamic IPs saturated on the IPlanet web matrix, then we could perform 3-way LDAP POP3 authentication with a digital certificate.
The other way this could be accomplished is to triangulate a 801.11b WAP source into an array of POSIX message headers that would reflect the consistency of the mail protocol.
What do you think?
"...the spam client MUST provide a Accept-Topics: header, where the value is one of 'penis-enlargment', 'make-money-fast', 'repair-credit', or 'any'. The server MUST reply with a Spam-Type: header, specifying the type of spam transferred. In addition, the server MUST respond with a Spam-Encoding: header, where the value is one of the options 'all-caps', 'many-exclamation-points', or 'broken-english'..."
Other than using a cow prod or a red hot poker, how on earth do you "educate" a spammer? Send them to Spammer School? Enroll them in self esteem classes? D00d, this is just about the stupidest thing I have heard in in a loooooonnnnnnngggg time.
Perhaps education is the way to go for Slashdot posters...
Sue them if you're richt (read: AOL), complain about them if you're poor (read: everyone else)
Sue them if your rich? Perhaps you can enlighten the techno-elite here how exactly you find a spammer who is sending e-mails with forged headers, connecting through open HTTP proxies? If you're going to sue them, you gotta find 'em first, right?
and be happy if they loose your DSL connection because of you as one guy dig who pissed me of days ago.
Ohhhh great job, kiddie! Sounds like you did a denial of service on some average home user who didn't happen to know that he had an open web proxy server. Whoo hoo! You da man!
Hey, Windows users, there is no such thing as "forward" slash, there is only slash and backslash.
That's why I prefer my anti-spam system, known as "Firing Squad". Use it once, and all spam will stop.
In Soviet Russia, Chuck Norris will still kick your ass.
I'm sorry, but Babelfish isn't doing anything for this post. Anyone have a translation? It SOUNDS interesting... :)
~ Nonsanity
I'm digressing (well, _you_ brought it up), but I found this little blurb once about top-posting:
A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
A: Top-posting.
Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail?
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