[ale] Earthlink Spam protection

[Bryan Mattern]

Well, you could also require the sender to type in a simple random
string on the confirmation (generated from an image of course) ala
slashdot.  That's what I did on my system.

Then I suppose spammers could develop a process to print/OCR it, script
a form post, etc.  To counteract that, you could just use a weird
looking font. :-D



On Wed, 2003-05-07 at 21:51, Thomas Holmquist wrote:
> HAH
> 
> tell me your kidding right...?
> 
> I have both Mindspring DSL and Bellsouth DSL.
> 
> I prefer my Bellsouth, its much more stable (I was connected for 55 days 
> straight.) Until I had to move my router :(
> 
> Also Mindspring DNS goes down ~ 1 day per month.
> 
> Plus I think Its a stupid solution against spam... what keeps the 
> spambot from just replying to your "spam" protection?
> 
> Also say I were to send this email, then Leave my computer, and not 
> return until tomarrow morning, it wouldent arive until I reply to the 
> stupid anti-spam thingie.
> 
> matty91 at bellsouth.net wrote:
> 
> >This is the coolest thing ever!! I am glad someone is finally
> >offering aggressive actions to help fight Spam!! I just called
> >to switch from BellSouth to Earthlink DSL. It is cheaper, and
> >offers more stable Mail/IRC/web hosting.
> >
> >- Ryan
> >
> >On Wed, 7 May 2003, Thomas Holmquist wrote:
> >
> >  
> >
> >>Will this affect ALE?
> >>
> >>http://slashdot.org/articles/03/05/07/1342245.shtml?tid=126&tid=111


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