On Wed, September 3, 2008 3:53 pm, MattyJ wrote: > <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
I was just confused. I wondered if it was somehow like those web popups that say "We've detected a virus!! click here to buy something to get rid of it." Or if it was a response from someone on the list who had a clueless thingie installed. Apparently the latter. -- Lan Barnes SCM Analyst Linux Guy Tcl/Tk Enthusiast Biodiesel Brewer -- KPLUG-List@kernel-panic.org http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
