* Chris Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-08-28 10:15:48 +0100]: > On Wed, Aug 28, 2002 at 04:05:57AM -0500, John Buttery wrote: > > Anyway, just out of curiosity, how come you guys aren't using TMDA? > > Just haven't found it yet, or...? > > > Probably because it's useless for quite a number of people.
Useless is a pretty strong word...it's merely a question of whether
the benefit of the tool justifies the setup time.
> Much of my incoming mail is in response to enquiries I send out to
> trade suppliers and small businesses. If I implemented TMDA they
> would have to jump through hoops to get their response to me, it's
> difficult enough getting a response from some people anyway so I
> suspect that TMDA would reduce the reply rate to negligable
> proportions. The alternative of modifying the TDMA 'whitelist' when I
> send the enquiry out is similarly flawed (I have to jump through
> hoops) and anyway isn't guaranteed to work as they may not respond
> from an address I know about.
Well, I'm not going to get too far into advocacy here, given that
this is a MUA list and not a anti-spam software list, but I do need to
point out that you must have read a very old version of TMDA's feature
list, because it is much more than a simple whitelist (which you could
do with a 3-4 line procmail recipe anyway). The situation you're
talking about sounds like a good candidate for TMDA's date-keyed
addresses.
> Only a very small proportion of my (wanted) incoming mail is from
> people/addresses that are known to me, a 'whitelist' would catch a
> tiny proportion of my mail.
That depends very heavily on the robustness of the whitelist. Maybe
TMDA isn't right for you...ok...but don't insinuate that it's just a
pattern check against a file with a list of regexps in it. :)
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