On Mon, 6 Dec 2004, Pavel A. Zavyalov wrote:
http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/aw.nsf/FAQs/fairuce
_FairUCE only sends a challenge when the mail appears to be spoofed_
Great. Just great. Let me guess, the challenge won't use a DSN
either. So now there will be *another* big source of
stupid assinine replies to spoofed mail besides TMDA and
idiotic virus scanners. DSNs to spoofed mail are no sweat - and
it what any virus scanner should use. Challenges could also use
a DSN if they give up the idea of simply replying to the challenge.
They should include a mailto and/or web link in the challenge and
not support reply.
These poorly concieved anti-spam tools account for about 1/3 of the
spam I get, usually in the content scanners quarantine which I have
to manually scan for false positives. Arrgh.
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