"Karsten M. Self" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I see you and raise you. You're arrogant, ignorant, rude, and you > can't do math.
Constructive debate is both healthy and encouraged, but baseless and petty insults are not, and I won't tolerate it. You've been warned. > Now suppose that most of that spam spoofs legitimate email > addresses (not historically true, but becoming more so). 6 > million C-R users send challenges to 150 million spams, every > day. With a uniform distribution, the average email user gets a > challenge based on a spoofed header once every four days. Whoa, whoa. First, there is no way to predict that such a situation will ever occur. Second, why do you assume that nothing will be done at the MTA level to stop/reduce forged messages as they become more prevalent? I really don't think this is a difficult problem to solve at this level, it just hasn't been worth the effort in the past, but that might change as virus/worm/spam behaviors continue in their current direction. > I would find C-R systems such as TMDA far less objectionable if they > mandated C-R only as a last recourse: > > - Mail that isn't viral in origin. Install a virus checker. Demanding that TMDA handle virus detection makes even less sense than demanding that the MTAs build this in. Have you approached the MTA authors with this request yet? > - Mail that isn't clearly spam. This is impossible. > - Mail that isn't otherwise accounted for (whitelist, passkey, or > other system). TMDA already does this. _____________________________________________ tmda-users mailing list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://tmda.net/lists/listinfo/tmda-users
