Re: Please confirm (conf#3cf11a7145595546740c6064dbc27044)

From: David G. Lawrence (dg_at_dglawrence.com)
Date: 06/30/03

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To: Wolfgang Zenker <wolfgang@lyxys.ka.sub.org>

    >> I hate to do it, but I am leaning towards a confirmation system as well.
    >
    >confirmation requests not going through because the other person uses
    >a confirmation system as well sound like a lot of fun.
    >
    >Not that I'ld have a better solution ...

       ASK deals with that as well. If the other confirmation system includes
    the original email in the confirmation request, then it will allow the email
    through due to a special-phrase match in the email header or in your
    signiture. ASK also limits the number of confirmations sent to a particular
    address to prevent loops like this.
       I think by now we've strayed far away from freebsd-stable. Information
    on ASK can be found at http://www.paganini.net/ask - so please go there if
    you want to know more about it.
       It's also worth noting that there is a new anti-spam scheme that I heard
    of recently that operates at the SMTP level. In this scheme, if the mail
    system hasn't seen email from your server IP + email address before, then
    it defers reception of the email for a few hours. This stops spam from
    people doing drive-by spamming since they don't try to re-deliver on
    temporarly failures.

    -DG

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