Re: [Asrg] Please critique my anti-spam system

["Michael Kaplan" <mkaplansolution at lycos.com>]

> > Billions of spam are sent each day and the problem is getting 
> > worse. I believe that this system will profoundly decrease email 
> > traffic by
> > eliminating spam.  In time as spam is controlled the number of bounces
> > will decrease.
> 
> The response of spammers to better blocks and filters has been to send
> more spam. If I want to ensure that 100 user get my spam, and a 90%
> effective filter is commonly used, then I send out 1000 messages. If the
> filter is 99% effective, I send out 10000.

This is not a content filter.  If the spammer doesn't have your email address then the spammer can't send you spam.  There is no reason for the spammer to increase the spam load.  Sending spam to a very effective filter is not futile.  Sending spam to a non-existent address is completely futile so the spammer will stop doing it.

> >
> > The text in these bounces is generic.  An email service provider can alter
> > the content of the message to a generic Chinese message if the user
> > wishes.  The instructions for the CAPTCHA can be created in a hundred
> > different languages - the user can decide which one to see.
> 
> How do I know which language my sender will prefer? Particularly if the
> sender is a new correspondent. If I set my system up to send out such
> bounces in say, Hindi, and you don't understand it at all, how would
> that situation be handled?

The text in these bounces is generic.  My email provider can recognize one of these generic bounces and substitute the generic Hindi message with an identicle generic English message.  I'm sure that others can think of other similar ways to handle this situation.  

Even if this process did not happen then I doubt it would be a big problem.  If your system sends out bounces in Hindi then whoever is trying to correspond with you also likely speaks Hindi.  People who cannot read each others language at all rarely correspond via email.


Michael Kaplan
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