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Date:      Mon, 30 Jun 2003 07:10:21 -0700
From:      Michael Sierchio <kudzu@tenebras.com>
To:        "David G. Lawrence" <dg@dglawrence.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Please confirm (conf#3cf11a7145595546740c6064dbc27044)
Message-ID:  <3F0044CD.1070908@tenebras.com>
In-Reply-To: <20030630061417.GA35100@nexus.dglawrence.com>
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David G. Lawrence wrote:

>    I respectfully disagree with your second assertion that doing sender
> confirmations is 'a bad idea'.

ASK, TMDA, etc. seek to implement a notion in which the computational
burden of spam and malware is shifted to the client/sender.  This
generates a lot of extra traffic and work without the promised
benefits -- as witnessed here.

What would it do with my hotel reservation confirmation email?

Of course, blacklists don't work, either. ;-)  And my Bayesian
spam filter (attempting to catch what the blacklists don't)
occasionally tags legitimate mail as spam.

>    Despite this little hickup with ASK, I highly recommend it. It
> sucessfully filters about 99.999% of the spam that I get, while rarely
> blocking legitimate email.

Well, David, five nines to a cryptographer isn't a very high
percentage. Of course, my ISP thinks that three nines of
uptime is unattainable...

 > Download Technologies, Inc. - http://www.downloadtech.com - (866) 399 8500

Kick Akamai's Butt!

-- 

"Well," Brahma said, "even after ten thousand explanations, a fool is no
  wiser, but an intelligent man requires only two thousand five hundred."
                 - The Mahabharata

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