On Fri, 2003-09-26 at 16:28, Alun wrote:
> --
> Dennis Davis (D.H.Davis@???) said, in message
> <200309261545.aa09413@???>:
> >
> > A URL would have been nice.
>
> Google says:
>
> http://www.paganini.net/ask/
>
> > and I've seen adverse comments on such software, particularly from
> > mailing list owners.
Definitely. I'd do my best to ignore such software. If it managed to
get its messages through the list owner I would blacklist the address.
If it sent queries to the original senders of list mail and I found out
about it I would flame the owner and permanently block them. But then
I'm well balanced and subtle like that.
> Given that this list is always harping on about not sending any form of
> automatic message in response to detected spam, I'd say that this software
> is very close to the boundaries of "decent behaviour" as defined by the list
> :-)
Actually the big problem with this stuff is that its utterly self
limiting. What happens if both you & I use this software (but have not
previously had any communication), but then you send me a message?
If the query my ASK system sends you is specially white listed then its
nice and easy to make a way of working round the whole system.
This stuff is the latest
security-through-obscurity-and-being-a-bloody-pain-in-the-arse
equivalent of the disguising email addresses as fred@???
Nigel.
[Now how many content filters has the previous paragraph triggered?]
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[ Nigel Metheringham Nigel.Metheringham@??? ]
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