> Earthlink challenge response. However after she sent email, the kids were
> screaming as usuall, so she got off laptop. Typical pop account didn't
check
> for another 10 minutes after she sent. She had already shutdown ibook. I
> think it was 2 days later she checks her email and sees the challenge
> response. Funny to see the end user response of "WTF is this?" and "Why
> won't it send my message?"
>
> After I explained it, she filled out the quick form, and hit submit. To
> which Earthlink responded, "Can't find original message to send......"
Looks
> like the delete after a day! This sent my wife into a spiral of profanity
> that had me laughing all day. She ended it by saying, "Screw this, I'll
just
> call her and never email her again. Stupid earthlink!" :)
>
> Which proves two points:
> 1) C/R is flawed
> 2) End users are funny
It might be worth noting that the DirtLink challenge/response system is an
option that the customer has to deliberately chose, it doesn't do it by
default. Of course, their spam scanning is so poor that I can see someone
choosing it in their belief that it might help stop the spam flood.
(Would be interesting if someone could talk Earthlink into trying SA 3.0
with some SARE rules as an Option #4 on the user's selections of spam
filtering. I'm less than impressed with Brightmail's abilities.)
Loren
