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Re: [Asrg] Turing Test ...

2003-04-02 23:19:21
On Wed, 02 Apr 2003 22:35:17 -0700 
Art Pollard <pollarda(_at_)lextek(_dot_)com> wrote:

A properly designed system would have IMHO added you to the whitelist
the moment that the student you mentioned sent you a message.  If you
are good enough to communicate with (i.e., you can infer that you are
not a spammer because he sent you a message) then you should be
automatically whitelisted.

Careful, this is fragile.  My envelope frequently doesn't match my
From:, and in the case of role addresses, the initial To: won't match my
From: or envelope.

Some of the difficulties to the challenge / response system is that it
is not standardized and currently requires a separate e-mail from you
with something that identifies you as a person rather than a machine.
I believe that it would be much easier if there were a standard for
this sort of thing and then the challenge / response could be built
directly into the e-mail client.  

Modulo turing tests, and even there where the Turin test form becomes
standardised...and into spammer software that manage to run an MX for a
while.

-- 
J C Lawrence                
---------(*)                Satan, oscillate my metallic sonatas. 
claw(_at_)kanga(_dot_)nu               He lived as a devil, eh?           
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