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Earthlink Deploying Challenge-Response Anti-Spam System

Posted by michael on from the bringing-out-the-big-guns dept.

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...

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  1. Re:Nice moves by spacefight · · Score: -1, Troll

    Sorry but I call Challenge-Response system crap. eMail was not designed for such a challenge (well, let's forget the TCP/IP SYN/ACK). I won't burden this to my fellows mailing me. It drives network traffic as well up to the sky. Education is the way to go for spammers. Sue them if you're richt (read: AOL), complain about them if you're poor (read: everyone else) and be happy if they loose your DSL connection because of you as one guy dig who pissed me of days ago.