At 07:08 PM 1/9/05 -0500, David W. Fenton wrote: >What do you mean by "all the challenge/response services?" Do you >mean 3rd-party services?
Yes. As soon as I get a new one, I blacklist it. >And if I emailed >someone, I'd whitelist their email address in anticipation of >receiving a reply. There's one of the problems. Like many people wearing various hats, I have many email-in addresses. The email-in addresses tell me who & where it's coming from, but the email out (the one above on this post) is always the same. >Email is not going to survive without just such a system to stop >spam. I get around 250-300 email messages per day of which 200-250 >are spam. My server's spam filters discard over 25MB of spam email at the servers daily, and about 300 get through the filters to my local spam filter. I actually get to see about 150 a day, which get uploaded to my filters weekly. By the way, HTML is *not* one of my filters, since I get email from many different correspondents, the majority of whom now use HTML (including newsletters). Like you, I've also had my email address for a long time (since August 1996), and like it. But, barring effective pay-per-piece systems (which I support, but which are a while in the future), I'll let my filters do the work and press delete for the rest. (Pay-per-piece would need a broker system where a micro-deposit is made for each sent email -- as I paid in the early 1980s to send email across the CompuServe and ATT gateways. The per-piece charge would be refunded for accepted email, less for bounced email, and not refunded for discarded or refused email.) I'll not clutter up *this* list with more, though. :) Dennis _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
