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

2004-12-28 10:55:21
"Michael Kaplan" <mkaplansolution(_at_)lycos(_dot_)com> wrote:

This is not a content filter.  If the spammer doesn't have your
email address then the spammer can't send you spam.  There is no
reason for the spammer to increase the spam load.  Sending spam to a
very effective filter is not futile.  Sending spam to a non-existent
address is completely futile so the spammer will stop doing it.

History says otherwise.

How do I know which language my sender will prefer? Particularly if the
sender is a new correspondent. If I set my system up to send out such
bounces in say, Hindi, and you don't understand it at all, how would
that situation be handled?

The text in these bounces is generic.  My email provider can
recognize one of these generic bounces and substitute the generic
Hindi message with an identicle generic English message.  I'm sure
that others can think of other similar ways to handle this
situation.  

Once again, you're assuming that all email providers implement your
system on Day 1.

Even if this process did not happen then I doubt it would be a big
problem.  If your system sends out bounces in Hindi then whoever is
trying to correspond with you also likely speaks Hindi.  People who
cannot read each others language at all rarely correspond via email.

That works fine for mono-lingual people on both ends.

But what happens when I try to correspond with someone who speaks
Hindi, French, and English and whose primary language is not English?
We _could_ communicate except that your system sends me the Hindi
version.

Seth



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