RE: [Asrg] IBM invents return to sender

["Richard Johnson" <rdump at river.com>]

At 20:03 -0500 on 2005/03/22, Barry Shein wrote:

> I quote:
>
>    "Sender identity is the spam-fighting tool of the future."
>
> I don't believe that. I don't believe C/R is the wave of the future
> either, it's proven pretty inadequate thus far and flaw-ridden (I know
> *I* usually throw away challenges even from well-meaning people.)


I can't know based solely on the challenge if someone is spamming me due to
a post I've made to a mailing list or the like, or if they're spamming me
because they're receiving spam themselves which forges my address as the
sender.  So, generally, I'll answer the challenge.  That way, I help make
sure that they get whatever message they're so concerned about, and can at
least hope that one challenge was enough to get me exempted/whitelisted
from any others.

Then I firewall the sending network, because unsolicited and substantively
identical (bulk) challenges are spam just like any other spam.


Richard


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