Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2007 13:58:42 -0400 From: Bart Silverstrim <bsilver@chrononomicon.com> To: Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com> Cc: Sam Lawrance <boris@brooknet.com.au>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Greylisting -- Was: Anti Spam Message-ID: <835A09E2-14A2-4FB4-8B68-0B74730CFBA9@chrononomicon.com> In-Reply-To: <BMEDLGAENEKCJFGODFOCMEAGCAAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> References: <BMEDLGAENEKCJFGODFOCMEAGCAAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com>
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On Apr 29, 2007, at 4:45 AM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Sam Lawrance [mailto:boris@brooknet.com.au] >> Sent: Saturday, April 28, 2007 2:59 AM >> To: Ted Mittelstaedt >> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >> Subject: Re: Greylisting -- Was: Anti Spam >> >> >> >> Email is not an instant messaging system, no matter how much you want >> it to be one. >> > > Cell phone companies won't take pages any other way no matter how > much you > want them to. And as I already have to carry a cell phone, I am > not going > to carry a separate pager also. Email only, eh? I used to send messages to my boss via webform...I suppose that would imply that it's possible to have a message sent by some scripts to a website, unless there's captchas or something like that to defeat that method. But like I said...most people would already have whitelisted vitally important domains, or you could send periodic "keepalives" to test the system. -Bart
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