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Re: OT: Spam protection

by wufnik (Friar)
on Jun 10, 2003 at 09:32 UTC ( [id://264588]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to OT: Spam protection

hello

i have a similar problem with aunts who have requested to be shielded from the world of organ enhancement etc, and recommended they use ...hushmail, my own mail address, for legacy reasons. why?

it uses something rather grandiosely titled a 'human authenticator system' which, instead of requiring the user to stringify a figlet, asks them to click on an image.

your system is certainly no worse than this. as a matter of fact, with spam assasin, it is *more* rigorous. though this might not be necessary, as i now never get mail from emarketers. there is some debate as to how user-friendly 'human authenticators' are in the politech mailing list, but it gets a thumbs up from me.

if i had discovered spamgourmet earlier, though, there might never have been need for this. using this and a human authenticator would be overkill, and besides, you'd have to keep adding spamgourmet addresses to your allowed list. but if your children are older, you might consider this instead of the above.

best of luck, (thank god my 3yr old cannot read)

...wufnik

-- in the world of the mules there are no rules --

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Re: Re: OT: Spam protection
by t0mas (Priest) on Jun 10, 2003 at 09:59 UTC
    I've had some thoughts about having web based validation of mails instead of a reply-to validation mail, but I discarded that idea since I think it will require more work than validation mails, and I'm lazy :)

    If for some reasons (like using non-fixed fonts), a person can't read the FIGlet, a web validation link as an option will be a good idea. So now I may end up doing both.

    Thanks,

    /brother t0mas

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