On Wed, 8 Sep 2004, Minica, Nelson (EDS) wrote: > 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.
Yes, that's what they all say. > 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... How would you handle delivery status notifications? Throw them out? Deliver them anyway? > 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? Well, I use pine to read my e-mail so... > Especially my sons, an addiction to lust is like a forest fire, easy to > start - hard to extinguish... ... it would have to be pretty dramatic and original ASCII art to awaken lust in anyone. [Having been a teenager once, I recall that I didn't need porn spam to awaken hard-to-extinguish lust. It's human nature. :-)] Regards, David. _______________________________________________ Visit http://www.mimedefang.org and http://www.canit.ca MIMEDefang mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/mailman/listinfo/mimedefang

