<quote who="Gabriel Sechan"> > Its a spam prevention attempt. The idea is it sends you a link you need > to go to in order to confirm you aren't a bot. Which won't stop bots on > real email addresses, but would stop one forging their from header. It > looks like it automatically whitelists you if you click the link. Not the > stupidest anti-spam I've seen, since most do fake the from. Won't stop > many scams though, and it would be hell on mailing lists and opt-ins.
I think what it will mostly do is annoy and irritate people trying to send the legitimate mail. If I ever got one of these messages from my friends or family memebers I'd delete them out of my addressbook. It's not *my* responsibility to maintain *their* spam filter. It's offloading work to the wrong people (the wrong people being me and, obviously, Lan. :) ) -Matt -- KPLUG-List@kernel-panic.org http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
