on Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 10:21:59AM -0700, Matthew Parke Bostrom ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 
wrote:
> 
> Earthlink tried a C/R system a while back, didn't they?  Are they
> still using it?

Earthlink announced a C-R spam system on May 7,l 2003, and was sued the
same day by MailBlocks for infringing MailBlocks' claimed C-R patents.

    NYT article:
    http://oceanpark.com/webmuseum/bullshit_patents.html

Earthlink's current A/S offerings don't mention challenge-response
tactics:

    https://www.earthlink.net/spamblocker/tour/suspect.html

One paper on the issue of ELNK's spam mitigation system noted that
initial projections were for 50% adoption by ELNK's 5 million
subscribers, likely making it the most heavily used C-R system in use.

Peace.

-- 
Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>        http://kmself.home.netcom.com/
 What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand?
    Defeat EU Software Patents!                         http://swpat.ffii.org/

Attachment: signature.asc
Description: Digital signature

_____________________________________________
tmda-users mailing list ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
http://tmda.net/lists/listinfo/tmda-users

Reply via email to