At 8:27 PM -0400 5/18/03, Yakov Shafranovich wrote:
What I do expect is that users will not reply to challenges that
come from strangers - if spammers start using someone's email
address for the "FROM"
I fear you are being optimistic. Having spent much more time than I
would like doing email customer support, I tend to think that you'll
get two major categories of responses.
1. Scared by challenge, doesn't reply to any.
2. Finally figured out that challenges are okay, replies to all.
I can't offer concrete evidence for that. But the number of viruses
that spread via people opening attachments, and the number of people
who ignore bounces completely, make me think that people just don't
have a good understanding for what part of what they are looking at
is important, and what part should be ignored. When it comes to
computers people really don't understand what's cause and what's
effect. It's the new magic.
--
Kee Hinckley
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I'm not sure which upsets me more: that people are so unwilling to accept
responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to regulate
everyone else's.
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