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Re: Some odd harvesting going on?
From: Brian Keefer <chort () smtps net>
Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2008 07:36:55 -0700
On Oct 9, 2008, at 6:37 AM, Michienne Dixon wrote:
<snip>I too think C-R spam 'prevention' is the lazy-mans approach at filteringspam. People can easily create their own whitelists based on their maillogs or mailhistory. <snip>Unfortunately, I feel the majority of the solutions offered cater to thenon-technical. The process of simplifying often results in a product that requires the least amount of hands-on from the end-user. Coupledwith the fact that the average end-user is not interested in learning aprocess that takes more then 5 paragraphs to explain and more than 10minutes to implement (without some sort of "wizard") and I think we havea good idea why the layman's approach is so prevalent.
There are many, many other solutions that satisfy these requirements without massively inconveniencing everyone who tries to send you e-mail.
I can only attribute the persistence of C-R as a method for combating spam to the fact that a sufficiently small percentage of humans will believe in *anything*, no matter how ludicrous it is.
Hopefully this provides some motivation to those few who still cling uselessly to C-R to go out and spend 15 minutes researching advances in anti-spam technology in the last 5 years. Perhaps they will pull themselves out of the stone ages and stop irritating everyone.
-- bk
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- Some odd harvesting going on? Howard C. Berkowitz (Oct 07)
- Re: Some odd harvesting going on? Marshall Eubanks (Oct 07)
- RE: Some odd harvesting going on? Fred Moses (Oct 07)
- Re: Some odd harvesting going on? Rich Kulawiec (Oct 08)
- Re: Some odd harvesting going on? D'Arcy J.M. Cain (Oct 08)
- Re: Some odd harvesting going on? Sander Smeenk (Oct 09)
- RE: Some odd harvesting going on? Michienne Dixon (Oct 09)
- Re: Some odd harvesting going on? D'Arcy J.M. Cain (Oct 09)
- Re: Some odd harvesting going on? Valdis . Kletnieks (Oct 09)
- Re: Some odd harvesting going on? Brian Keefer (Oct 09)
- Re: Some odd harvesting going on? D'Arcy J.M. Cain (Oct 08)
- Re: Some odd harvesting going on? Marshall Eubanks (Oct 07)