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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)
    
    That's the name I was looking for.
- Re:There's only one way to deal with them... (Score:2)
  
  by nicholas (3034)
  
  such fuckwitted systems
  I've just received another from someone else, thanks to SOBIG.E. This challenge wants me to respond with a reply to an e-mail address. Helpfully it's set the Reply-To to that address. That way lies madness - if the faked from address had not been me, but that of any autoresponder, then the challenge will be met, and the orginal unwanted message will get through. Then again, it's not my problem if the C/R luser gets the infected message sent to him/her/it.

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