Re: Challenge-response mail filters considered harmful

From: Alan Connor (alanconnor_at_earthlink.net)
Date: 08/07/03

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    What we NEED are "advertising servers" that check the legality and
    trustworthiness of any advertising they offer.

    THEN you can put that server on your passlist. You'd register a password
    with that server, which could be changed at will. All the "spam" they sent
    you would include that password in a special header: X-CR: would work just
    fine.

    If you started receiving spam with the password that you gave a particular
    adserver, then you would drop it from your passlist. They would then start
    receiving your CRs and either correct the problem or go under.

    The "adservers" would be financed by small fees charged to any business or
    that they carried.

    Alan 

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