On Thursday 06 July 2006 17:36, Stephen R Laniel wrote: > See also Karsten Self on challenge/response systems: > http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Rants/challenge-response.html
I think you are referring to me using a C-R system. Let me just start out by saying that, I am not completely in favor of the CR system either. It is just one of the methods that is suitable for my situation. I dont have resources and energy to run my own mail server. So white/black (or any other color in between :-) ) listing is not an option for me. I was previously using gmail. But all gmail does is filter the spam out. The drawbacks of this and using the gmail+spamcop is also not a viable solution to get rid of spam. More details at http://malayamaarutham.blogspot.com/2006/06/gmail-and-spamcop-vs-bluebottle.html Besides the fact that karsten's article is 2 years old, here are my opinions about some of the issues raised by him. I am using blubottle's CR system. I use this account just for mailing list subscriptions. > 0. Weak, and trivially abused, verification basis. It seems bluebottle takes necessary precautions to prevent FROM: headers forgery. More info at http://forums.bluebottle.com/index.php?showtopic=224&st=0&#entry982 The CR-CR deadlock described under entry 7 is not an issue here. There is a folder called pending in bluebottle account. The user can go there and approve the emails if the need arises. The mailing list support is what worries me. Currently I am not having any problems with d-u. But I am having problems with other mailing lists like vim where I had to approve the new "from addresses" manually. More details at http://forums.bluebottle.com/index.php?showtopic=221 But this inconvenience is minor compared to going through hundreds of emails in gmail's spam folder looking for one or two false positives. To conclude, CR is not the best system out there to have a spam-free INBOX. But it is good enough for people who rely on webmail rather than setting up their own mail servers. I am open to any other suggestions which will get rid of the spam problem in people's INBOX's. raju -- This email account uses challenge-response system. Contact me only if you are comfortable with it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
