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I just love some of the anti-spam measures put into place.

A member of one of the mailing lists I run had put into place a challenge-
response anti-spam measure, where you have to reply to the message in order
for the original message to go through. Only the challenge-response message
gets bounced back to the list as a whole! (Fortunately, the challenge-
response system is smart enough not to cause mail loops when the challenge-
response gets sent back … ) Bad enough, but now, another member has
classified the challenge-response messages as spam!

We got email bouncing everywhich way as anti-spam software tries to deal with
other anti-spam software, each claiming the other as spam.

There's a Monty Python (Who would have thought people can't spell Python?)
[1] sketch in here somewhere.

[1] http://www.dvdmania.co.pt/Press/press-077-monty.html

Email Sean Conner at sean@conman.org

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