[ILUG] Best Email Server to Use

Justin Mason jm at jmason.org
Fri Aug 1 14:17:35 IST 2008


paul at clubi.ie writes:
> On Fri, 1 Aug 2008, Colm Buckley wrote:
> >> ...or maybe not!  It appears they may have fixed it in the past few days:
> >> http://www.sophos.com/security/blog/2008/08/1605.html?_log_from=rss
> >
> > Hah!
> 
> Done by applying spam-filtering on user-received email presumably?
> /me has argued here before that such an approach would be far more 
> effective than CAPTCHA..

You can be certain that GMail, along with almost every other ISP and
MSP these days, is already doing this.   All part of the ever-continuing
adversarial arms race against spammers...

--j.



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