Notes from my terminal

How not to fight spam

Challenge-response systems are as harmful as spam claims John Levine and I couldn't agree more. If there's one thing that's worse than spam, it's short-sighted ways of fighting it, be it through challenge-response systems or censoring hosts or whole IP ranges on dubious criteria. Last year, I wrote a short piece in German about the problem. If you can read this language, here's "Halte deine INBOX sauber".
[original link to John Levine's writeup via 0xDECAFBAD] Posted by jens at July 30, 2003 10:20 AM