In message , ac writes
>
>Okay, so I am assuming then that my definitions of spam are accurate.
They are out of date ... on the big platforms (where perhaps 90% of the
world's mailboxes are now to be found) spam detection is entirely an
automated process ("machine learning" systems, with some gui
On Mon, 29 Apr 2019 11:32:23 +0100
Richard Clayton wrote:
> As a result of this the working definition of spam for 90% of all
> mailboxes is "email that is not wanted in the inbox just at the
> moment"
> This definition is not directly based on "permission" or "bulk" or any
> statutory definition
On Mon, Apr 29, 2019, 2:05 PM Richard Clayton
wrote:
> Systems that fail to ensure that such emails cannot be automatically
> generated (by adding CAPTCHAs for example) need to be updated.
>
This is not possible. CAPTCHA is not a silver bullet. What it can do for
sure is preventing simple automa