Your server, your rules.
In my experience, admins who make use of C/R tend to get
very emotional,
very quickly when they find their servers blocked for
pushing their spam
problem on others.
Cheers,
Matt
webmaster 1usa.com wrote:
> There is no place in business for emotion.
> "rude" is an emotion.
> Most emotional responses are assumptional and usually a
wrong answer.
> If confused, refer to line #1.
> ...
> Each of us here use various software for a (business)
purpose.
> It is the goal of the publisher to provide various
features in order to
> attract a wider user base.
>
> Likewise, it is important to "finish the job"
and protect the participants.
> If you want to talk about lack of controls or
"rude", take a look at
> MySpace for instance.... It could be nice, if they
could ever get rid of
> the thousands of prostitutes that 'request to be one of
your friends'.
>
> BarryZ
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> *From Warren
Michelsen <mailto:WarrenMDCCLXXVI.com>
> *To
surgemail-listnetwinsite.com
<mailto:surgemail-listnetwinsite.com>
> *Sent Wednesday,
April 23, 2008 11:02 AM
> *Subject [SurgeMail
List] Challenge-Response
>
> At 7:34 PM -0500 4/21/08, Lyle Giese wrote:
> >Personally I absolutely detest the
Friends/Challenge system. The
> >biggest drawback is that users NEVER check to see
what was blocked.
> >I have exactly three accounts here that have a
Friends/Challenge on
> >them. All the time, I am seeing the Challenge go
out and we get a
> >challenge back. And the other party never checks
their pending list
> >and will never see our challenge.
> >
>
> <Opinion>
> "Friends" challenges are a rude, selfish
thing. It says, "I'm making
> more work for you to save myself
bother.</opinion>
>
> These challenges just add to the clutter that is email
these days.
> While it may make things better for the challenger, it
does so at the
> expense of others.
>
> Now, I know that Challenge-Response is a major
component in Netwin's
> anti-spam toolbox and philosophy and that some on this
list embrace
> it unreservedly, but I, as my server's admin, would
prefer a way to
> turn it off globally so that users are not offered the
ability to
> turn on Challenge-Response at all.
>
> I have received challenges from mailing lists,
including this one,
> and I have received a challenge in response to an
off-list message to
> a poster who needed help. I never, ever, respond to
these challenges;
> I don't want to encourage bad behavior. It used to be
that the
> rudeness factor was my only objection but the
backscatter/clutter
> problem is increasingly a concern.
>
>
>
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