You're forgetting one important point. A steak knife is manufactured to cut a steak though it can also be used to murder someone. On the other hand, a 9mil has no other purpose but to take a life, certainly not cut steak.
Handguns are created to fulfill a single purpose (except those who find them useful for hunting)
I believe the SMTP mechanism has the potential to fulfill all the above. The answer: custom header tags!
SMTP is exactly that, Simple Mail Transfer Protocol. The infrastructure to reliably deliver a message from server A to server B is already there, proven to work for decades. It is OUR job to further utilize this system by adding meaningful authentication or captchas right in the email. Maybe the use of public keys to exchange emails only with those you know.
I think you said it best: In the (non-electronic) business world, do people allow just anyone to talk to them, or do they prioritize?
Some nice Nigerian man offered me lots of money once too. It was quick and painless, just had to click on one link.
Unfortunately my stupid bank screwed up everything and ended up giving him the money instead. I felt terrible not being able to help him. To make things worse, I think the bad guys he was running away from ended up catching him, I never got a response from him again:(
Oops, yes, the more you filter the higher the odds of a false positive
I agree for the most part with your other comments. I am responsible for a mailserver hosting roughly 350 mailboxes, man can people be picky about spam...
Every time I try a new technique (and yes, I use Spamcop religiously) I have to be very careful not to have a client's legit email be flagged as spam and consequently have it deleted. When that happens, my customers will often say: "I'd rather have no spam filter than have something delete my client's emails".
With regards to lowering the spam by registering with blacklists, well that doesn't seem to do much unfortunately. I find myself being the one submitting all my spam to spamcop thereby helping others but the volume that is actually stopped by spamcop, spamhaus, and others is relatively low. Most of the spam we block is actually done by Thunderbird
Photons have no mass. They travel at the same speed through all mediums. It only appears that they slow down when difracted since they travel more distance than going in a straight line.
This is practical for a single guy with a single mailbox. It won't work for an ISP or Webhost who tries to clean their customer's emails.
Worse yet, the less spam you filter, the more you should be paranoid about false positives. No matter how effective a spam filtering technique seems, it is utterly useless the moment it flags a legit email as spam. In the business world, a false positive is the one potential sale opporutnity you missed.
If you keep checking your "Spam" folder for possible false positives all the time, you might as well find another solution. If you're using SpamAssassin, you're wasting even more time searching the quarantine on the server.
Thunderbird's Junk Filter works wonders but ultimately, it will be rendered useless just like every other method that was once useful. Nothing short of human tests will ever put an end to Spam. Not Governments, spam filters, or even changing your address regularly.
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You're forgetting one important point. A steak knife is manufactured to cut a steak though it can also be used to murder someone. On the other hand, a 9mil has no other purpose but to take a life, certainly not cut steak. Handguns are created to fulfill a single purpose (except those who find them useful for hunting)
Nope. it means the King has been defeated. "Mat", which is a word common to Urdu and Hindi as well, means defeat, while "Shah", of course, means King
Urdu? Persian? Hardly.
Sheikh is Arabic for "Elder" whereas "Mat" is Arabic for "died." Chess is of Arabic decent created by an Arab. Checkmate is really SheikhMat
I believe the SMTP mechanism has the potential to fulfill all the above. The answer: custom header tags!
SMTP is exactly that, Simple Mail Transfer Protocol. The infrastructure to reliably deliver a message from server A to server B is already there, proven to work for decades. It is OUR job to further utilize this system by adding meaningful authentication or captchas right in the email. Maybe the use of public keys to exchange emails only with those you know.
I think you said it best: In the (non-electronic) business world, do people allow just anyone to talk to them, or do they prioritize?
Anyone notice the /. subject refers to Phishing Heaven whereas the original theregister article uses the word Haven?
Some nice Nigerian man offered me lots of money once too. It was quick and painless, just had to click on one link.
Unfortunately my stupid bank screwed up everything and ended up giving him the money instead. I felt terrible not being able to help him. To make things worse, I think the bad guys he was running away from ended up catching him, I never got a response from him again :(
Oops, yes, the more you filter the higher the odds of a false positive
I agree for the most part with your other comments. I am responsible for a mailserver hosting roughly 350 mailboxes, man can people be picky about spam...
Every time I try a new technique (and yes, I use Spamcop religiously) I have to be very careful not to have a client's legit email be flagged as spam and consequently have it deleted. When that happens, my customers will often say: "I'd rather have no spam filter than have something delete my client's emails".
With regards to lowering the spam by registering with blacklists, well that doesn't seem to do much unfortunately. I find myself being the one submitting all my spam to spamcop thereby helping others but the volume that is actually stopped by spamcop, spamhaus, and others is relatively low. Most of the spam we block is actually done by Thunderbird
Fishing can single-handedly become a thing of the past if people stop clicking on links in their emails!
Photons have no mass. They travel at the same speed through all mediums. It only appears that they slow down when difracted since they travel more distance than going in a straight line.
This is practical for a single guy with a single mailbox. It won't work for an ISP or Webhost who tries to clean their customer's emails.
Worse yet, the less spam you filter, the more you should be paranoid about false positives. No matter how effective a spam filtering technique seems, it is utterly useless the moment it flags a legit email as spam. In the business world, a false positive is the one potential sale opporutnity you missed.
If you keep checking your "Spam" folder for possible false positives all the time, you might as well find another solution. If you're using SpamAssassin, you're wasting even more time searching the quarantine on the server.
Thunderbird's Junk Filter works wonders but ultimately, it will be rendered useless just like every other method that was once useful. Nothing short of human tests will ever put an end to Spam. Not Governments, spam filters, or even changing your address regularly.