haha, I thought David might respond with "C/R is evil". :) I agree it COULD be a bad thing, but if designed/written correctly I think it would work fine. Blacklist based systems cannot keep up and cause too many false positives. It's like we have two billion doors and are trying to identify and close the doors a bad e-mail might come through.
Probably the most important things a whitelist system can do is 1) automatically whitelist addresses the person sends mail to 2) make sure challenges come from the person's actual email address. Following those two rules, even IF everyone were using it, challenges wouldn't get challenged (one of main objections to C/R). Also tagging outbound messages so anyone could reply... I wasn't really worried about it until they started coming in with images embedded in the email itself. I started thinking... what if my computer were unlocked, e-mail opened, a message comes in, and my children are introduced to porn? It was possible, no matter how remote. Especially my sons, an addiction to lust is like a forest fire, easy to start - hard to extinguish... -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David F. Skoll Please don't use C/R. It's one of those solutions that's extremely effective if 0.01% of the Internet uses it, but will destroy e-mail if lots of people use it. Is one porn spam a month really that bad? (I use a text-based mail reader, so perhaps I'm spared obnoxious images, but really... a few bad words a month isn't the end of the world.) _______________________________________________ Visit http://www.mimedefang.org and http://www.canit.ca MIMEDefang mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/mailman/listinfo/mimedefang
