[conspire] How not to do antispam, latest in a continuing series
Nick Moffitt
nick at zork.net
Sun Feb 22 14:15:16 PST 2015
Rick Moen:
> Quoting Ruben Safir (ruben at mrbrklyn.com):
> > it is an experiment gone awry that the moment.
>
> OK. But, about that:
[...]
> C-R antispam bots' autoresponses to mailing list subscribers are widely
> deemed serious misbehaviour. I'll quote Don Marti's policy from
> http://zgp.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-elitists :
>
> Challenge-response: This list has zero tolerance for broken
> challenge-response systems. Subscribers responsible for
> sending a challenge to the list, or to any list poster,
> will be removed and banned from the list.
>
> I second that view. Please note. Thank you.
I once configured an entire list to trigger his noisy reject systems,
in the hopes he'd fix them out of necessity:
http://crackmonkey.org/faq.html#ANSWER43
But of course that was another millennium. Perhaps he reset the clock
and decided to try again now that a decade and a half have passed?
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