Re: [Asrg] Please critique my anti-spam system

On 2004-12-05 12:20:42 -0500, Michael Kaplan wrote:
> From: "Seth Breidbart" <sethb(_at_)panix(_dot_)com>
> Date: Sun, 5 Dec 2004 11:49:27 -0500 (EST)
>
> > "Michael Kaplan" <mkaplansolution(_at_)lycos(_dot_)com> top-posted:
> >
> > > 2 - Innocent victims can only be sent bounces if spammers know their
> > > address to begin with, and if you use this system then spammers
> > > can't forge your address.  It would also be a simple matter for a
> > > email service provider to filter out this bounces if the user did
> > > not initiate a email to the corresponding address.
> > So two people using your system could never communicate.
> I thought that the issue that you were bringing up was the following:
> A spammer forges your address and sends out a million pieces of spam
> and you subsequently get an enormous number of bounces as per my
> system. 
> I suggest that this won't be an issue as your email service provider
> will only allow you to receive one of these special bounces if you had
> just sent out the corresponding email.
This is - to the best of my knowledge - not standard behaviour among
email service providers today. 

So in effect you are saying: "Sure, my system will annoy almost
everybody today, but if they adopt my system or start filtering bounces,
they won't be bothered any more."

        hp

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