Re: [Asrg] Receiver Initiated Authentication

From: SM <sm(at)resistor.net>
Date: Mon Sep 17 2007 - 15:13:32 EDT

At 11:12 17-09-2007, Chris Lewis wrote:
>Freudian slip? ;-)

No. :-) I was merely pointing out why every new measure introduced gets circumvented.

>I can't help thinking that spammers will have a field day spamming
>themselves with forged, say, @hotmail.com, doing the captchas to
>"approve" bogus IPs, and then firehosing the world with what would
>now verify. The Nigerian 419 hordes would have fun.

Or they could push more authenticated mail through as they already control the user's computer.

Regards,
-sm

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