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Re: Which address of this list should auto-responses go?

2004-08-21 02:23:50

Yes but as I wrote already, an anti-spam system that uses responses can
not do this because as I said the spammer could mimick a list to escape the
anti-spam response mechanism.

Well - maybe an anti-spam system that uses an autoresponder is not the way
to go - but that's a different debate.  We're talking about senderkeys - Not
accuspam!


Agreed!

SenderKeys is not tied to whitelist autoresponders.


What happens in the scenario where someone is away from their computer and
wants to send an e-mail from an internet cafe or someone else's machine -
how does senderkeys cope with that scenario?


The MUA they use reads their mailbox before sending.

I mentioned that burried in the zillion posts :)



As an aside - why don't you make the auto-response to mail lists go to
autoresponse_receiver(_at_)some_mail_list(_dot_)mail-lists(_dot_)com and the 
admin will very
quickly spot it and point it at /dev/null.


Now we are back to talking AccuSpam.  This again gives the spammer a way to 
avoid the purpose of the auto-response by mimicking the list headers.


 Perhaps a courtesy note to the
list admin would be a polite way of progressing also?  You will have an even
harder job of getting all the mail-lists in the world to comply with
accuspam than you're having with convincing us senderkeys is a good system
;-)


Agreed.  I think whitelisting by each user is the only practical solution for 
the moment.

But as I said, we are targeting mainstream (mom and pop, soho, etc) users which 
rarely use mailing lists.


If you set up a mail list for senderkeys, folks who are interested will join
and you will not have to struggle here.


Yes I do feel this experiment at SPF and SenderKeys discussion is winding down. 
 I hope so.  Unless there is some really new information to present on 
comparing the two.


 Spamassassin integrates with spf,
but there's no-one here banging on about that, it gets mentioned in the
passing as do such systems as cloudmark and gossip.  Perhaps you need to
build a mail-list/community of senderkeys supporters who will help you
resolve some of the difficulties (real and perceived) you are finding here.


What difficulties?  You mean the auto-responder?  There is no solution other 
than whitelisting.


I, and others, don't do forums, so without a mail-list you are already
restricting your support base.

How truely interested are you in SenderKeys?

I did not get the impression that any one here is interested any way.  Am I 
mistaken?

Thanks,
Shelby


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