Elizabeth, Thanks
Spamarrest uses the greylisting model of rejecting unknown senders, however it does so by emailing the sender (not via using lower level reject/error messages aimed at achieving an automatic response) and asking them to effectively register to send you mail using an "image password". It does defend against the common error cited in the reference of rejecting valid mail, by holding this in a non-validated box on the spam arrest webmail, allowing me to go in once a week or more often and quickly scan for important mail by using the - name and subject. If you come across mail eg from a list that cant register you can register for it. This has made an enormous difference to my quality of life as around40% of mail I get (spam arrest tracks the stats) is spam and I don’t have to deal with it. So far it gets the application of the year award from me and is well worth the few dollars it costs to subscribe. Regards Peter Please note: due to increasing problems with SPAM, I am using SPAM ARREST - http://www.spamarrest.com/affl?4034505 - a relatively inexpensive service which extends my current email service and prevents automated SPAM attacks by checking with email senders that they are bonefide people needing to communicate with me. If you are not already in my address book and reply to this, you may receive a confirmation email asking you to respond. Once you answer, the email is on the way and will receive my attention. I am evaluating this service and would appreciate any feedback on it. I also have information on the corporate configuration of the service. Peter Macisaac MacIsaac Informatics Consulting in health informatics, HL7 and terminology [EMAIL PROTECTED] peter_macisaac (skype) 61 2 61611327 (landline) 61 411403462 (mobile/cell) www.macisaacinformatics.org -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Elizabeth Dodd Sent: Monday, 26 March 2007 7:16 AM To: General Practice Computing Group Talk Subject: Re: [GPCG_TALK] Messaging Responsibilities - HL7 workshop outcomes. On Monday 26 March 2007 06:56, Peter MacIsaac wrote: > Elizabeth, > > What is a nix derivative? > > And what does it have to do with SPAM blocking > > Peter a *nix derivative either Unix or Linux and they have everything to do with spam blocking, because that way you can do it well and free. I saw that you had paid for "a relatively inexpensive service" to do greylisting. it didn't call itself greylisting in the web site but claims "Patented challenge/response technology blocks 100% of automated spam" but it depends on the same ideas as greylisting. http://www.greylisting.org/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greylisting so you might like to read more about greylisting and some of its problems http://www.taugh.com/greylist.pdf -- Engineering: "How will this work?" Science: "Why will this work?" Management: "When will this work?" Liberal Arts: "Do you want fries with that?" _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.446 / Virus Database: 268.18.17/732 - Release Date: 24/03/2007 4:36 PM -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.446 / Virus Database: 268.18.17/732 - Release Date: 24/03/2007 4:36 PM _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
