RE: (TFT) Re: challenge-response spam filtering and mailing lists

["George Dew" <gdew@ResponseNetworking.com>]

Thanks for the email Chris.

Yes, I know that it creates a lot of problems. I tried AppRiver and some
other services and was still getting way too much spam. In the mean time,
I'm changing the filters to accept incoming emails with "tft@brainiac.com"
in the "to" line. I should have been more careful about this.

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that are still worth paying attention to.





 

-----Original Message-----
From: tft-admin@brainiac.com [mailto:tft-admin@brainiac.com] On Behalf Of
Cris Fuhrman
Sent: Tuesday, February 02, 2010 13:48
To: tft@brainiac.com
Subject: (TFT) Re: challenge-response spam filtering and mailing lists

On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 12:31, Joe Hartley <jh@brainiac.com> wrote:

> I've never found anyone who actually thought this was a good idea.
> Sorry, George, but the answer lies in better spam filters and 
> greylisting (at least IMO).
>

There is a strong consensus that says the challenge-response spam filtering
creates more problems than it solves. However, I do understand that from the
perspective of the person paying for the service (who does not get any
spam), it looks like a good solution.

There is a good description of why it works badly if you're on a mailing
list:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Challenge-response_spam_filtering#Interaction_w
ith_mailing_lists_or_other_automated_mailers

Personally, I've never seen the challenges when I use the TFT list, but I
suspect Gmail is smart enough to treat them as junk.

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- "I'm willing to admit that I may not always be right, but I am never
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