[OT] Mailscanner With TMDA (Tagged Message Delivery Agent)

[Antony Stone]

On Wednesday 06 August 2003 9:19 pm, Matt Kettler wrote:

> Personally I find that TMDA "solves" your spam problem by making it harder
> for people who you do want mail from to get in touch with you. While it's
> not a massive inconvenience, I feel it's a wrong-way approach to the
> problem.

I too agree with this.

The major "feature" of TMDA is the bulding up of whitelists for "known,
trusted users" (with the corresponding blacklists of unknown, untrusted
users).

I believe that this approach to blocking spam will only push the spammers
towards spreading their messages by means of worms which harvest address
books (in the well-established manner of many viruses), and therefore may
change the nature of the problem, but certainly won't make it go away.

If the article http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,59907,00.html posted
by Gerry Doris is at all accurate, then it's clear that there's a big
financial incentive for these spammers to keep doing what they do, and I
don't believe the answer is to make it more difficult for *everyone* to send
email.

Just my 2p,

Antony.

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