On Mon, 25 Jul 2005, Professional Software Engineering wrote:
PSE>
PSE> Bottom line: if you use a challenge-response system, you should be
prepared
PSE> for a drop in LEGITIMATE correspondance along with your drop in spam.
PSE>
It is a phenomenon I used last week although not quite in a
challenge-response scenario. I was on holiday and for the first time I
implemented an "out of office" reply at work. But not just the normal
Outlook respond once thing; one that replied to each and every email,
asking people not to send me emails whilst I was away. It worked a treat
- only 49 emails to wade through when I got back. One prolific email
sender obviously got so fed up she only sent me 4 emails in a week.
I did say please and included a photo of me that changed every hour but I
think the irritation factor rather than the politess was the key to
success.
With that, can I ask that we don't get into the kind of "debate" about
challenge-response that explodes every so often in the comp.mail.misc
newsgroup.
--
Alan
( Please do not email me AS WELL as replying to the list. Please
address personal email to alan+1@ as lists@ is not read. A
password autoresponder may be invoked if this email is very old. )
____________________________________________________________
procmail mailing list Procmail homepage: http://www.procmail.org/
procmail(_at_)lists(_dot_)RWTH-Aachen(_dot_)DE
http://MailMan.RWTH-Aachen.DE/mailman/listinfo/procmail