On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 06:04:39AM +0100, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 01:57:54PM +1000, Matthew Palmer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote:
[W3C's autoresponder] > > This one's a bit different. It's only asking for permission to archive > > posts to the list - I guess W3C's just trying, as hard as possible, to avoid > > any possible legal problems. > > It's still an instance in which the autoresponse would not have been > triggered had any half-decent AV/AS system been used to filter out spam > and viruses. This was a response to the SoBig.F worm. Sorry, I didn't make my position sufficiently clear. This system is as broken as every other Challenge-Response, in that it has the potential to annoy the shit out of a lot of people very easily, and become a nice anonymous harassing agent. I was just making the point that it isn't the same as a regular C-R system, in that the intent wasn't so much to say "I want to make sure you're not a spammer" and more "I want to make sure you agree to your posts being publically archived" - at the very least it's a little less offensive than normal (it's not saying "You're a spammer - prove me wrong!"). > I'm coming to the view that we're approaching the era where all mail is > going to have to be subject to filtering, at the MTA level. Depends on how useful you want your e-mail box to be. <g> - Matt