[ale] Earthlink Spam protection

Thomas Holmquist fishy at ipa.net
Wed May 7 22:37:44 EDT 2003


What if Im using mutt/pine and cant see images?

Bryan Mattern wrote:

>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
>
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>On Wed, 2003-05-07 at 21:51, Thomas Holmquist wrote:
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>>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:
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>>>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:
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>>>
>>>>Will this affect ALE?
>>>>
>>>>http://slashdot.org/articles/03/05/07/1342245.shtml?tid=126&tid=111
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>>>>
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