Sloan wrote:
Teruel de Campo MD wrote:
ref: http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/fairuce
Does anybody uses fairuce as antispam tool?
This is the first I've heard of it - I've been making do with postfix+policyd, spamassassin, razor, clamav...
Hmm, the webpage is dated 2004, looks like fairuce never really took off.
ARRGH!! I just took a closer look and immediately saw the reason why: it's a challenge/response system. Tools like that are extremely aggravating for actual endusers (I would never reply to a challenge/response mail!) and impossible for automated systems. This mailinglist for example would not work with fairuce, or to be fair, it wouldn't work under certain circumstances that many participants of the list are using: if you forward your mail to another server. If that server had fairuce implemented, it would start to spout hundreds of chall/resp mails back to the sender... right! The sender of these mails is something like: opensuse+bounces-50130-suse-linux-e=japantest.homelinux.com@opensuse.org The mailinglist manager would probably treat it as a bounce and "reward" the deserving recipient with an unsubscribe after processing some of these mails. (^-^) -- Sandy List replies only please! Please address PMs to: news-reply2 (@) japantest (.) homelinux (.) com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org