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Re: [PLUG] spam abatement with a challenge/response system
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I neglected to include the link to the mapson home page:
http://mapson.sourceforge.net/
and the manual:
http://mapson.sourceforge.net/user-manual.html
Eric
On Sunday 22 October 2006 8:43 pm, Eric wrote:
> Like many of you my inbox is increasingly filled with spam. In a typical
> 24 hour period I probably recieve 200 emails - 80% or more of those are
> spam. I tried spam-assassin but found it to be a resource hog and not
> that good - I had too many false positives or spam get through anyway.
> Setting up filters in the email client is a waste of time... they have to
> be adjusted every few days as the character of the spam changes. I want
> to spend _zero_ (or near zero) time messing with spam.
>
> While exploring the internet for something else entirely I found mapSoN -
> a challenge/response system for filtering email.
>
> Simply put, mapson keeps a list of email addresses that I correspond with.
> When an email from one of those addresses arrives (or it's a reply to an
> email that I send) then the email is delivered to me. Otherwise, it's
> filed where I don't see it and a challenge is sent to the sender asking
> them to confirm that they are human. If they are real then they reply to
> the message thereby sending the "key" in the email back to me. Mapson sees
> this and then delivers the corresponding message to me and adds the user to
> the whitelist. They are never challenged again. If it's a spammer then
> the reply goes un-answered and I never see the email.
>
> Does anybody have any experience with mapSoN (or other systems like it?)
>
> Eric
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