On 11 Jan 2005 at 5:46, dhbailey wrote: > David W. Fenton wrote: > > [snip]> 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. [snip] > > Not all challenges work as you are describing, David, which is what > pisses most of us off who are complaining about them -- they come from > the whitelist service itself, and buried in the body is something to > the effect of: > > "You have sent an e-mail to John Doe. In order to prove that you are > a human, hit reply, leaving the subject line intact." > > Why should we have to read what appears to be a spam message to find > out that we have sent someone a message just so we can confirm that we > actually wanted to send him a message?
Badly designed services will vanish. Ignorant users who can't configure their filters properly will eventually learn how to do it or stop using them. > So when I see a message from mailduster.com I assume it's another > worthless piece of spam itself. > > <Mailduster Privacy System>[EMAIL PROTECTED] is the FROM: of the > most recent one of these messages I got -- please tell me how I could > tell which of my many correspondents I sent that to, or how I could > tell it is a whitelist response rather than a spam message advertising > its service? I don't think 3rd-party services have any viability in the long term, as they are too easy to spoof by spammers. Remember, the title of this thread is MISUSE, which is the source of the annoyance for *all* of us (which definitely includes me, since I've gotten one of these for every post I've made in the last couple of days). -- 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
