I'm aware of your aversion to challenge/response. I use it for the exact same reasons that you decry it. I get 150+ legitimate emails a day and about 100+ more spam emails. I simply can't sift my way through it.
I go to great, great pains to ensure that everyone I correspond with is on my whitelist, but occasionally someone emails me out of the blue from an address that I cannot possibly be expected to foresee as was the case with you. In order to ensure that I get those emails, I browse my trapped folder a couple of times a day. In short, I am a responsible challenge/response user. Your ire is better directed at the irresponsible users of challenge/response. As is the case with many tools, it can be used corrcetly or incorrectly. I've written about the correct way to use challenge/response and the incorrect way to use it on my blog. If you're interested (bottom couple of paragraphs): http://jonwatson.ca/node/850 So pffffft at you! :) On Tuesday 30 May 2006 09:27, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > On Tuesday 30 May 2006 08:58, Jon wrote: > > Please ignore me? > > ha! i actually sent an email to your personal email addy. it returned with > one of those $EXPLETIVE "click this link to get on my whitelist" responses > ala spamarrest. as i absolutely hate those things (and refuse to take part > in the "jump through this hoop" crap[1]) you can rest comfortably knowing > you have succeeded in getting me to (at least appear) to ignore you ;) > > luv. > > [1] why? because given the amount of people i correspond with it simply > isn't a scalable solution and i really don't like bearing the brunt of a > penalty that belongs on the back of spammers. -- http://www.jonwatson.ca http://www.linuxworldnet.com +1.403.875.6048 _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
