David W. Fenton wrote:
Last of all, the challenges will be clearly differentiable, as they will come only from addresses you have emailed for the first time, and they will come very soon after you've sent the email. That makes them *very* easy to identify.
You're presupposing that everybody uses email in the same way. You're requiring that people sit by their computer after sending every email to respond to the challenge. This might be OK for you, but not for everyone.
And, absent such a system, your email is likely to be completely lost among the spam, and never seen at all.
As others have pointed out, issuing challenges ensures that some people never try to contact you again.
You are lucky. I would wager that this is because:
1. you are using a fairly recently activated email account
2. that email address has never been posted on the Web or Usenet.
I find no noticeable difference between my several addresses, despite some being years old and heavily publicised, and some being brand new.
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