Kyle Hasselbacher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2003/8/20/16411/1978

[...]

> I'd be interested in people more knowledgeable than I giving me any
> pointers on where I've gone wrong.

Very nice analysis Kyle.  You clearly have a good grip on TMDA's
capabilities and how it differs from most commodity C/R systems.
Poorly implemented C/R systems (i.e, most of them) give this
methodology a bad rap, so it's nice to see some documents like this
that try to clear the air for TMDA.  Fight the ignorance brother.

The pain points that seem to raise the most objection to C/R are the
following in my experience:

* They can't handle automated mailings (mail from mailing lists,
  webforms, etc.).
 
* The C/R system shouldn't challenge my response to your message,
  regardless of whether I'm on your whitelist or not.

* Standards uncompliant auto-responding behavior (e.g, sending the
  challenge to the Reply-To address instead of the envelope sender).

I'm happy to say that TMDA handles all of these seamlessly.  If you
disagree, then you have a misconfigured installation of TMDA, or are
not using the software as it was intended.

The bottom line is that if you are using TMDA properly and fully,
very, very few people should even know you using it.  The only senders
who should see a TMDA confirmation request are those who you've never
corresponded with before, AND who are sending you a fresh composure
(as opposed to a reply).  Luckily, these are the minority of your
correspondents, and they also tend to be the most cooperative with the
challenge since it is they who are soliciting you.
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