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[Steven Champeon <schampeo AT hesketh.com>]

on Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 08:59:06PM -0500, Michael D. Thomas wrote:
> > You should read "Challenge-Response Anti-Spam Systems Considered
> Harmful"
> > (http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Rants/challenge-response.html ).  The
> > author identifies 12 reasons why CR systems are fundamentally broken
> > and why they shouldn't be used.
> > 
> > This is actually quite timely because I posted something to another
> > mailing list I'm on this morning and got 2 challenges from one guy
> > for my one post.  
> 
> Just for fun, differentiate his emails from Spam. They are definitely
> bulk, 

No, they're not. They're a single response to a single message, maybe
repeated twice, but that's hardly "bulk".

Come on, we have a hard enough time trying to fight the real spammers,
folks listed on ROSKO, without such silly confusions of the issue.

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