Re: [Asrg] Turing Test ...

[Art Pollard <pollarda@lextek.com>]

> Maybe I should make it more clear: you send a question to sendmail.org,
> you can get an answer from esmtp.org, some university, some Unix
> vendor, some other domain...
>
> Hence your original mail must already include a "token" which allows
> the reply to go through without depending on the sender address
> (domain). The simplest way would be to allow mail with
>
> Subject: Re: your original subject
>
> through... (hence "your original subject" should be a bit more
> descriptive than "Hi" or "Help"...)
Oh, I got you.  And yes, you have a good point.

This could simply be worked around by having an additional header line such as:

UserID: ArtPollard_3448558020

This user ID could then be added / used in all the e-mail clients that I use.

Then when the whitelister whitelisted me for passing the Turing test it 
could key off of that in addition to my regular e-mail address.

It does become more complicated when I send a letter to you at:

ca+asrg@esmtp.org

and my mail client automatically whitelists: ca+asrg@esmtp.org but you 
choose to reply from a different e-mail address.  Even so, I think that 
this could reasonably be able to be worked around in most situations.  (For 
example, the address: ca+asrg@esmtp.org, could be added to the other header 
line for the whitelister to key off of in addition to the address you 
replied from).

Furthermore, I don't think that this would be / is the norm.  I think most 
people have a primary e-mail address they tend to work through.  True, at 
one point, I had about 11 different e-mail addresses but I typically only 
worked through one or two of them.

-Art
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Art Pollard
http://www.lextek.com/
Suppliers of High Performance Text Retrieval Engines.

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