Re: An Amazing Fact

From: gla (x_at_xxxxx.xx)
Date: 09/01/03 

Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2003 19:49:00 GMT

In article <pan.2003.09.01.19.21.53.653785@socal.rr.com>, Ed Murphy wrote:
> On Mon, 01 Sep 2003 17:53:13 +0000, Alan Connor wrote:
>> [some implicit adds about his so-called system]
> I believe that most people don't use your system because:

> 3) They are unwilling to inconvenience people, even a tiny bit. This
> is often true of businesses, and *especially* true of businesses
> conducting e-commerce.

plus, maybe,
4) Alan is not then first designer of a "challenge" system. If people
  are not using challenge system, there must be some good reasons.
  As far as I know Alan's never tried to address a single of these
  reasons in his post. He stick only on the "If you are not using
  my system or if you are using SA, that's mean that you are a spammer
  -> killfiled".
  What with newsgroups ? with mailing list ?

5) The only reason why Alan's "system" (or any other better programmed
  challenge system) might works is because he is the only one who uses it.
  If everybody was using this, if it became a standard, using a robot
  to answer the challenge would be really easy, and the spam probleme
  would not be solved.

6) Alan has already shown his talents in programming mail filter by
  posting procmail rules with no loop detection, that could crash a
  network or a mail server very easily. For lot of people e-mails
  is very important. You cannot afford to loose a single one, and
  therefore you can only use reliable system, checked by millions of
  experts, and containing thousands of man-hour.
  Why should I install a script of a single script-kiddie to destroy
  e-mails, when this very script-kiddie has publicly showed to the
  world how naive and unchecks script he is able to write.

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