Backscatter & challenge response

Hugo van der Kooij hvdkooij at vanderkooij.org
Tue Apr 15 06:04:04 IST 2008


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Devon Harding wrote:
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|     I agree totally. I bounce any mail from a known 'challenge response'
|     user. The entire concept of 'challenge response' is flawed and a huge
|     waste of time and bandwidth.
| What has everyone been doing to stop these?

I can just speak for myself. But I found the following line in header
checks took care of one of them:
#       No dirty autoresponders
/^X-ChoiceMail-Registration-Request/    REJECT  We are not buying into
your ChoiceMail crap

Hugo.

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	A: Yes.
	>Q: Are you sure?
	>>A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation.
	>>>Q: Why is top posting frowned upon?

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