At 20:23 10/03/03, Jason R. Mastaler wrote: >"Data Vortex" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Hey all, throught some of you might be interested to read a spam >> filtering article on kuro5hin that mentions TMDA: > >Thanks, I generally have no idea when TMDA appears in an article >unless someone tells me. > >I'll respond a bit to the article's criticism of TMDA. > >For one, it says: > >``It wouldn't work if everyone did it'' > >but doesn't explain why. What could the author mean by this?
I would guess that he imagines a FAQ 4.12 case: I send a message to a TMDA-protected account and get a request to confirm; I have TMDA set up and it doesn't recognize the address the confirm message is coming from, so the request for a confirmation receives a request to confirm. So he never sees my original message and I never see his confirmation message. The solution is of course explained quite clearly in http://tmda.net/faq.cgi?req=all#4.12. It's unfortunate that the "journalist" in question didn't bother to do his homework. >It also says: > >``and it may cause some of your correspondents to just give up without >confirming that they are human, effectively causing false positives.'' > >Those who have used TMDA for a period of time know this is a >misconception, but even if it wasn't; I'm more comfortable with this >than a classifier which accidentally trashes a message it "thinks" is >spam. At least with TMDA, the sender has the choice whether or not to >let his message be delivered to you. With a classifier, he will assume >it has been delivered when it has not been, creating a communications >rift. I might add that, because I deal with many non-technically inclined people whose mail is nonetheless important to me, every 6 hours I have TMDA pending send me just the email addresses of those who've received confirm messages, like this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] It only takes a couple seconds to check, since most spammers have such obviously "spammy" addresses, if I notice repeaters I can stick them in badmailfrom, and AFAIK I've never missed an important message. _____________________________________________ tmda-users mailing list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://tmda.net/lists/listinfo/tmda-users
