Comments on: IBM hopping on the spam vigilante bandwagon? I don’t think so. http://michaelgracie.com/2005/03/24/ibm-hopping-on-the-spam-vigilante-bandwagon-i-dont-think-so/ Clever Tagline Unavailable At Publication Time Tue, 06 Jan 2009 02:21:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Ernunnos http://michaelgracie.com/2005/03/24/ibm-hopping-on-the-spam-vigilante-bandwagon-i-dont-think-so/comment-page-1/#comment-48 Ernunnos Fri, 01 Apr 2005 00:02:17 +0000 http://www.michaelgracie.com/ibm-hopping-on-the-spam-vigilante-bandwagon-i-dont-think-so/#comment-48 C/R solutions all suffer from the same problem: spammers and viruses often forge false names on the from line. The spammers don't get flooded by the responses, innocent forgery victims do. As someone whose domain gets forged into spams on a regular basis, I had to block a number of larger C/R senders just to keep from being overwhelmed by challenges. Of course this means I can't mail anyone who uses those C/R systems, but considering that they're shifting the cost of spam on to me and other innocent third parties, most of what I'd want to send them wouldn't be very nice anyway. C/R solutions all suffer from the same problem: spammers and viruses often forge false names on the from line.

The spammers don’t get flooded by the responses, innocent forgery victims do.

As someone whose domain gets forged into spams on a regular basis, I had to block a number of larger C/R senders just to keep from being overwhelmed by challenges. Of course this means I can’t mail anyone who uses those C/R systems, but considering that they’re shifting the cost of spam on to me and other innocent third parties, most of what I’d want to send them wouldn’t be very nice anyway.

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