Roedy Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Perhaps you could slow them down with some randomly chosen questions > to prove they know something about you. Companies could do the same > thing.
Challenge-response system are old hat. I use one, and it reduces my spam by three orders of magnitude. Most of what's left is spam that went to a list that I've subscribed to whose mail circumvents the anti-spam feature, and nigerian scam type things, which violates one of the assumptions that such systems make about spam. The downside is that I have no idea how many people try to contact me out of the blue, or from an address other than the one I sent mail to, but don't bother to answer the response. > You can inconvenience the sender to a fair degree since most people > don't often write strangers with the expectation of a personal > correspondence. Right. Nobody sends email to addresses that come off business cards, or off a web site, or .... <mike -- Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list