Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 00:13:03 -0500 (EST)
From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
To: Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com>
cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>, Zan Lynx <zlynx@acm.org>,
       Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [OT] Confirmation Spam Blocking was: List 'linux-dvb' closed to
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On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, Mike Fedyk wrote:

> What do you think about individual email (non-list) using a confirmation
> based spam blocking system.
> 
> I currently use spamassassin to filter my messages, but I saw recently a
> project that asks you to reply to a confirmation message if you're not
> already on the white-list.

That used to be fairly ok, until the introduction of
virusses-with-forged-sender a year or two ago ...

-- 
"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.
Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,
by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan

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