After some tweaking to the default scores, I made TMDA only confirm the messages that fail a spamassassin check. By giving certain keywords negative scores, and whitelists for mailing lists, I have gotten no spam at all, except for the ones to the lists (I have them whitelisted, to be sure).

If the attorney were to make a bunch of "legal" words have a score of, say, -1.2, it could further reduce the chance of a legit mail being confirmed (although It wouldn't do much for legal spam - but it beats nothing at all).

Thomas A. Moulton wrote:

David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:



I see several of them saying that when they see a challenge come back
after they sent an e-mail to someone, they just flat out delete it.


Bullocks. http://tmda.net/faq.cgi?req=all#1.5




It is a matter of getting your templates worded well.


For example the default template starts off netural (auto gen msg)
then is negative (being held... NOT verified)
then instructional

Maybe more positive wording would get people to confirm more.

I have a lawyer that was using tmda and he ended up turning it
off because he found a lot of his clients would not confirm.
(his words: people are morons and can't read)
(maybe that's just his clientel :) )

I had not given it much thought since I hardly read the messages
since I know what they are from the subject...

Now I have to say that firends and family have not had *any* trouble
but a more up-beat wording might help them too...

Yes that argument is bogus, but better templates can make the argument
forgotten...

tom


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