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

[Seth Breidbart <sethb at panix.com>]

"Michael Kaplan" <mkaplansolution at lycos.com> wrote:

> 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.

History says otherwise.

>> 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.  

Once again, you're assuming that all email providers implement your
system on Day 1.

> 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.

That works fine for mono-lingual people on both ends.

But what happens when I try to correspond with someone who speaks
Hindi, French, and English and whose primary language is not English?
We _could_ communicate except that your system sends me the Hindi
version.

Seth



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