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to: Roy Witt
from: Ross Cassell
date: 2004-05-03 16:55:34
subject: Rejected Email Confirmations

Hello Roy!

02 May 04 17:37, you wrote to me:

 TL>>> So, I'm just gonna side track email from folks who use
 TL>>> mechanisms that aggravate me, whether it's a lot of bounced
 TL>>> mail, or text that's insulting.

 RC>> Its all about you, isnt it?

 RW> If I were in his shoes and got the type of messages he's talking
 RW> about, It'd be all about me too. You have to draw the line somewhere.

I dont blame him for his consternation, but he could quietly handle it
rather than blowing a gasket.

I employed a service last month that uses a challenge/response setup, if no
response to the challenge, I never see the email on my computer, this has
kept over 1300 spams off of my system with quite a few of them being worms.
Many say that C/R setup is stupid, but since most SPAM is robot generated
with forged headers the service will after a few days delete it all off and
I will never see the email, whereas that email which is genuine will get
in.

I have employed a bayesian email classifier as my frontline defense, but
that still left me with those emails sitting in a "spam" folder,
with some of those emails containing virus code. In my case if I can keep
it and the penis enlargement offers off the system, all the better.

==
Ross
ICQ: 5305939 | YAHOO: Kingoffido
E-Mail: rcassell [at] mailblocks [dot] com
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criminal, 33 years later, he calls himself a war hero.

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