Re: Rid Emails??

"Richard Lovelady" wrote in message news:%23$I44Es6HHA.5316@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I use ChoiceMail Free to get rid of the garbage that gets sent daily to my Outlook Express account.


Choicemail uses challenge-response which is an irresponsible scheme. It lets a user avoid spam at the expense of other e-mail users. I already contacted ChoiceMail and other C-R providers and eventually got each to acknowledge that they do not yet have the smarts to accurately determine the true sender of an e-mail. SMTP was written under an old trust model and doesn't provide sufficient information to accurately identify abusive sources, like spam. Go read the following on why C-R is irresponsible, much like finding dog turds in your your yard and then tossing them into your neighbor's yard simply because whomever put the turds in your yard put your neighbor's name on them.

http://spamcop.net/fom-serve/cache/329.html#CR
http://spamlinks.net/filter-cr.htm#issues-harmful
http://spamlinks.net/prevent-secure-backscatter-fake.htm
http://spamlinks.net/prevent-secure-backscatter.htm

Note that C-R users can get blacklisted. If I receive their misdirected backscatter then I report them, like on SpamCop's blacklist. I wasn't party to the original spam but I'm not going to volunteer to a C-R user to be their spam filter, and the "challenges" to me are themselves spam because they are unsolicited and spewed out as fast as the C-R users en masse receive that spam.

Only children prone to knee-jerk solutions think C-R is a good solution.

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