Yes, another seal standing between man and the end of the world is breaking. I am looking at installing a Challenge/Response system for some of my company's email addresses.
We already do various filtering, etc... but the volume of spam still leaking through is about 40/day (about 20% - we are heavily weighted towards no false negatives), and we only see about 3 real emails a week for these addresses. The legit folks who send email to these addresses are generally low-tech folks (definitely no geeks). So I don't think a C/R system would offend them in any way. Also, I'm thinking of disquising the C/R system as a web-based request for more info on the mail they sent in. The auto-reponse email would have a copy of the original mail/header and would link back to a web form that puts their original email into the form and askes them to click some buttons to direct the request to the proper department :-), plus fill in the proper contact info. Of course if they are already in our system, they don't get the C/R notice. The mail just comes through. Jon -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
