-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi Everyone,
The messages you got from [EMAIL PROTECTED] are from 0spam.com, which is a challenge response system. Though perfectly inocuous, I can see how they are quite annoying. Please take no action, just delete them - Steve will have already added your names to the whitelist, as he did mine. He probably ought to have disabled sending the notices before he allowed 0spam to collect his email until well after he had fine-tuned the CR list, especially since he approved most of the valid addresses even before the victims of the flood had chance to do so themselves and hence wasted the emails and bandwidth, but no matter. Briefly, a challenge response system is one which challenges the senders of email to confirm their existence by asking some task of the human that only human senders are capable of and not the automated zombies that send out the hundreds of spams a day. When the CR system can't identify the sender of a message, it asks the sender to assert that the message he or she sent was legitimate by asking the sender to solve some problem or react in some interactive fashion. The benefits are that spam is practically zero. The cons are significantly more numerous - automatic systems such as mail processing agents including mail servers, E-Business transaction services and online merchants and even genuine mail from individuals who resent being challenged or are unable to respond to the challenge for whatever reason are then denied the right to communicate with the CR user, especially if the CR user's tendency to the maintenance of the whitelists and other features of the CR system is intentionally minimal. 0spam.com is a fairly decent system (so long as privacy and security are good, of course), but it contravenes, along with other CR systems, some fairly basic and essential features of email that I would not tolerate. Hope this helps. Again, do nothing with these messages. Clicking on the links and following instructions may help prevent these messages in future but chances are Steve has already added you (though the adventurous can always try). I think 0spam.com has the ability to add keywords to look for in mail to the whitelist, so the subject tagging of the BrailleNote list should make that possible to avoid in future. Cheers, Sabahattin - -- If an email tells you to forward it to all your friends, please temporarily forget that I am your friend. Sabahattin Gucukoglu Phone: +44 20 88008915 Mobile: +44 7986 053399 http://www.sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/ Email/MSN: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Skype: SabahattinGucukoglu (requires authorisation, add me to your list first) SpeakFreely: sabahattin-gucukoglu.com (Please use CELP compression if your processor allows) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 8.0 -- QDPGP 2.70 iQA/AwUBQcdGZCNEOmEWtR2TEQKEdACfQSZAhLJWunDzSwpSCHHOdjfjv70AniJQ O+W5Rxf6Y49M9O8M2S2crOe4 =fg0j -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
