[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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