Hi Jessica, Oh-no! There goes Tokyo!
I have not seen this yet (TMDA dropped my SPAM to zero), but this is a serious point of concern. I think Jason called it right on the TMDA web site when he said that the general TMDA approach can be modified arbitrarily to make it impossible for automatic confirmation approaches used by SPAMmers to succeed. OK, then that begs the following questions: a)If human interactivity is required for a confirmation, is it better to ask the human to modify the e-mail address, the subject line, or the body? b)What should be the general form of the modification? Should it be "remove the vegetable" in an e-mail address such as [EMAIL PROTECTED], or something else? What gives the most bang as far as making automatic confirmation approaches impossible but inconveniencing a human the very least? I mean, I don't want to see TMDA mailing out and automatically grading multiple-choice exams, but it could be that bad if automatic confirmation software is intelligent. The question is, is there any approach that gives a lot of bang without inconveniencing real humans who must confirm? Dave. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jessica P. Hekman Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2002 4:55 PM To: TMDA Users Subject: Spammers confirming? Some spam just got through TMDA, because apparently the spammer confirmed it: Date: Wed Oct 9 14:42:29 EDT 2002 From: The Career News <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subj: FREE: Search 110 Career Sites at Once! Actn: OK good_confirm_done_cookie (26558) Anyone else starting to see this? I'm not misinterpreting, am I -- the spammer did confirm, right? Jessica ps Still testing "outgoing" filter config, so if this comes through without a dated reply-to and you want to reply to me, I apologize. -- "Users complain that they receive too much spam, while spammers protest messages are legal." -InfoWorld "You do not have to do everything disagreeable that you have a right to do." -Judith Martin (Miss Manners) _____________________________________________ tmda-users mailing list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://tmda.net/lists/listinfo/tmda-users _____________________________________________ tmda-users mailing list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://tmda.net/lists/listinfo/tmda-users
