"David T. Ashley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > But the sooner we play for the future, the easier the transition > will be.
This assumes a transition will be necessary. > Does anyone have a vision of a challenge/response e-mail system that > will identify humans, thwart any attempt at automated replies, and > be minimally difficult for the humans? Did you not see my last e-mail? I provided two methods that can't be thwarted by auto-responders, but are still relatively easy for humans to use. To thwart these, a spammer would have to setup a system to accept all auto-responses and bounces for the spam it sends, and parse the message bodies looking for the confirmation e-mail address and/or URL, and then fire-up an http client or send another e-mail message to release it. Read the FAQ for why this will probably never happen on a significant scale. > The best I've seen is the text word embedded in a graphics image > with the confusing background (to thwart automated recognition). This is nothing more than window-dressing. If this level of complexity is not necessary, why do you want to give your correspondents an excuse to "give-up" and not confirm their message because they don't understand the instructions, or because the instructions are too time consuming to complete? Let's cross this bridge when we come to it. _____________________________________________ tmda-users mailing list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://tmda.net/lists/listinfo/tmda-users
