Spam filtering service

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effdee said:
http://www.bluebottle.com/
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This kind of service is guaranteed to make you VERY UNPOPULAR
with friends and contacts. Many software companies refuse to
offer tech support to people who hide behind this kind of wall.
It means anyone wanting to contact you has to write once and
then reply to a test message. I just send any such messages I
get to spamcop.

Please don't use a service like this.

Rgds

Martin
 
effdee said:
http://www.bluebottle.com/
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This kind of service is guaranteed to make you VERY UNPOPULAR
with friends and contacts. Many software companies refuse to
offer tech support to people who hide behind this kind of wall.
It means anyone wanting to contact you has to write once and
then reply to a test message. I just send any such messages I
get to spamcop.

Please don't use a service like this.

Rgds

Martin
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It looks like they allow whitelisting of addresses, so those correspondents
won't be required to respond to a test message. Just reading their FAQs,
that doesn't seem particularly easy to do with this service, but I don't
know. It looks like you have to send an email to someone to get their
address whitelisted. It would be best to allow importing address books for
whitelisting everyone all at once, at the outset. A similar free service
which has that feature is mailblocks.com, although you have to pay if you
want pop rather then web access.

I think there's a good chance that this is the way all email will go in the
near future - spam free networks which require tests or whitelists to
send/receive email. It seems perferable (to me) to the currently widespread
blacklisting of domains method, which doesn't work very well (blocks/bounces
some legit mail) and causes a lot of hard feelings.

However a problem remains if they prefilter the email for spam, which would
bounce some legit incoming mail. Most email services do so without making
any mention of it. I would ask first.
 
Euclid said:
It looks like they allow whitelisting of addresses, so
those correspondents won't be required to respond to a test
message.
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But many people using such a service do not know how to
whitelist all their present addresses, let alone new ones. I
have seen challenge messages appear in mailing lists and several
software companies refuse to provide technical support if people
use such a system. It doubles the work...
I think there's a good chance that this is the way all
email will go in the near future - spam free networks which
require tests or whitelists to send/receive email. It seems
perferable (to me) to the currently widespread blacklisting
of domains method, which doesn't work very well
(blocks/bounces some legit mail) and causes a lot of hard
feelings.
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The idea is that spam is mage illegal and spammers get hung
drawn and quartered... it should not be necessary to make mail
so much more difficult with such halfbaked splutions.

Rgds

Martin
 
it should not be necessary to make mail
so much more difficult with such halfbaked splutions.
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Of course the marketplace will determine what happens, and maybe I'm wrong
about my prediction. But something needs to be done soon, because the
universal email system is in process of seriously failing. Reason: spam
filters that use blacklisted domains always bounce some legit email too. I
see this happening more & more lately, and SpamCop seems to be a big player
here. It is now very difficult to communicate freely via email with domains
around the world, with ordinary people who are not spammers. They just
happen to have an email service that has some spam holes, which is not their
fault.
 
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