[conspire] How not to do antispam, latest in a continuing series

[Rick Moen]

I said to Ruben:

> _Was_ that a Challenge-Response (C-R) antispam mailbot
> (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Challenge-response_spam_filtering)? 
> Details welcome.

Cat got your tongue?

Pray _do_ tell us what that 'experiment' was.


I have to say, Ruben, you're an interesting case in certain ways.
Sometimes, I give people heartfelt and careful advice squarely within my
areas of expertise and they blow it off because they're not paying
attention.  Other such people just reflexively ignore absolutely
everything they're not paying a lot of money for (especially free
advice).  

You're not like that.  You _argue back_ with articulate, firmly held, and
also extremely stupid counter-arguments.  ;->  And then go ahead and,
based on this extremely stupid counter-arguments, continue to do (as
Nick observed) the exact same pigheaded things you were doing a decade
and a half ago.


Posting bare URLs?  You have a ready answer to the people who gently
take pity on you and help you understand why this isn't in your
interest:  You are being helpfrul by avoiding biasing people by
commenting!  So there!

Called on the carpet for peppering fellow mailing list subscribers with
local delivery agent-level mailbot autoresponses?  Simple:  'I need to
protect the kids in Wisconsin.'

Still running in 2015 ridiculously antique, EOLed and unmaintained,
proprietary majordomo mailing list software that wasn't justifable after
the 1990s?  Simple:  'I hate Python' (as of Sympa and Majordomo2 didn't
exist).

See, this is where you're a special case.  You're not paying attention
or lazy or indifferent like the other people.  Instead, you work _hard_
at being ineducable and frenetically rejecting expert advice, rather
than just achieving that state passively.

This is something of a special talent, and worthy of respect.