On Mon, Apr 12, 2004 at 06:46:41PM -0700, Rick Castello wrote: > > Quite simply: much spam now forges genuine e-mail addresses and most > > spam forges genuine domain names. This means that every challenge that > > you send out is wasting somebody else's time and adding to the load they > > already see from spam, viruses and collateral spam > > (http://www.cam.ac.uk/cs/email/collateral.html). > > I would agree with you that *some* spam now forges genuine email > addresses. I'd agree that nearly *all* spam now forges genuine > domain names. However, in a highly unscientific survey (on my own > email box), I'd estimate that only about one percent of the spam > I see is from a real email address.
Yes, but there's a huge amount of spam so 1% still represents a lot of people. You're also ignoring the virus message problem. Almost all virus e-mails now forge *absolutely genuine* e-mail addresses > > There are plenty of good anti-spam tools that don't have any adverse > > affect on other people. Use them, not this lazy-ass, inconsiderate > > tool. > > Show me a tool that has the same success rate as C/R and I'll > use it. The success rate isn't the issue. The issue is that C/R causes inconvenience for other people. The other tools do not. You are cutting down on your spam problem by being antisocial to other people who have never done you the slightest harm. > If the person being spoofed isn't using C/R themselves, then to > them, my challenge message is likely *one* more piece of spam > that they deal with. Great, so the inconvenience you cause is distributed, with only a small amount going to any one person or system (assuming that no mailbombing or joe-jobbing is happening). Now multiply that by the number of people using C/R. Collectively, you are adding a significant amount of useless noise and inconvenience to the system. > Maybe the solution is for *everyone* to use C/R, rather than > no one. The more people who use C/R, the worse it'll get. -- Bruce I am now a little wary of bananas. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click -- squirrelmail-users mailing list List Address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] List Archives: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=2995 List Info: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrelmail-users
