On 11 Jan 2005 at 9:22, Owain Sutton wrote: > 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.
Well, even if it's not instantaneous, it will be soon enough that you won't forget you emailed someone. Of course, if you don't check email at least once a day, you might as well not be using email. > > 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. I don't understand the indignant attitude of the people *initiating* the communication -- if you want to contact someone, why get in a hissy fit over a challenge/response system, the whole purpose of which is to insure that the recipient > > 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. "Heavily publicised?" What does that mean? I have had a public web page since 1995. I have posted around 10,000 messages on Usenet since 1994. Are your long-term addresses similarly widely distributed over a long period of time? If not, then they're not really comparable, especially if you've always taken measures to obscure your address when posting it in public places. -- David W. Fenton http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
