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There's only one way to deal with them... (Score:1)

by pdcawley (485)

Filter all challenge/reponse messages that are addressed to your 'real' mailboxes into the trash. Read, and respond to all the ones sent to invalid addresses, certifying that whatever got sent wasn't spam.

If enough people do this, eventually we'll see such fuckwitted systems dying out.

Now, all we need is for the DNS based 'only these hosts have authority to send mail from this domain' spam stop thing to gain traction...
- Re:There's only one way to deal with them... (Score:1)
  
  by sheriff_p (1577)
  
  Which would be SPF: http://spf.pobox.com/
  - Re:There's only one way to deal with them... (Score:1)
    
    by pdcawley (485) on 2003.07.08 18:43 (#21865) Homepage Journal
    
    That's the name I was looking for.
    
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