On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 01:36:14AM -0500, Jesse Meyer wrote:
> On Thu, 31 Jul 2003, Alan Connor wrote:
> > Spam is UCE (unsolicited commercial email) and stopping it can only
> > be done with a Challenge-Response mail program, such as the one I
> > put together. There isn't ANY other approach that works.
> 
> Spam tends to be an automated, bulk emailing of addresses, but not all
> automated, bulk emailing of addresses are spam.

Yup. For example, I can guarantee you that the people operating the
Debian bug tracking system don't always bother to respond to
"challenges". If people don't want BTS mail, that's their problem; we
don't have time to babysit that sort of thing.

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Colin Watson                                  [EMAIL PROTECTED]


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