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Scott Bryce wrote:

>So I have sitting in my in box an email from an automated spam blocking
>program asking me to verify that my email address is real before it will
>send an email with my from address to the recipient.

If it's from someone you know, you might want to warn
them that they are about to get blacklisted for spamming.
If it isn't from someone you know or you can't tell whether
it's from someone you know , go ahead and report them as
the spammers they are.

Why Challenge-Response is a Bad Idea
http://tardigrade.net/challengeresponse.html

Why are auto responders bad?
http://www.spamcop.net/fom-serve/cache/329.html#CR

Challenge-Response Anti-Spam Systems Considered Harmful
http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Mail/challenge-response.html

Challenge-response systems are as harmful as spam
http://www.politechbot.com/p-04746.html

Challenge-Response is not a doorbell but a gun shooting decoys
http://pm-lib.sourceforge.net/README.html#4

Moronic Mail Autoresponders (A FAQ From Hell)
http://partmaps.org/era/mail/autoresponder-faq.html

A Spam-Fighter More Noxious Than Spam
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine...7/b3840044.htm

A fundamental problem with challenge/response anti-spam systems
http://utcc.utoronto.ca/%7Ecks/space...spam/CRProblem

Why I hate Challenge-Response
http://blog.commtouch.com/cafe/misce...enge-response/

Challenge-Response Spam Blocking Challenges Patience
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,1113101,00.asp

Bogus Challenge-Response Bounces: I’ve Had Enough
http://taint.org/2005/09/11/012434a.html

Challenge/Response Considered Harmful
http://spamlinks.net/filter-cr.htm#issues-harmful

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Guy Macon
<http://www.GuyMacon.com/>