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From: Oliver Schad <oliver.schad@××××××.de>
To: gentoo-server@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-server] SPAM protection by requesting confirmation
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 08:51:20
Message-Id: 200809241051.13971.oliver.schad@oschad.de
In Reply to: [gentoo-server] SPAM protection by requesting confirmation by Alex Efros
1 Am Dienstag, 23. September 2008 schrieb mir Alex Efros:
2 > Sorry for OT, but I wanna install spam-protection tool based on
3 > confirmation email request (somebody send me email, my tool delay that
4 > email and automatically reply requesting confirmation, he confirm, my
5 > tool receive that confirmation and: 1) add his email to while-list; 2)
6 > deliver his initial email to my mailbox).
7
8 Assume both partys use this mechanism. It's pretty funny, every party
9 waits for confirmation and waits for confirmation of the confirmation
10 request and waits for the confirmation of the confirmation of the
11 confirmation request ...
12
13 And I don't want to confirm you anything, what a spam robot couldn't do,
14 too.
15
16 You could make a whitelist in your spam filter if you know your opposite.
17
18 Regards
19 Oli

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