Re: Please confirm (conf#3cf11a7145595546740c6064dbc27044)

From: Michael Sierchio (kudzu_at_tenebras.com)
Date: 06/30/03

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    Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2003 07:10:21 -0700
To: "David G. Lawrence" <dg@dglawrence.com>

    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 ***! 

    -- 
"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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