[Spambayes] RE: Spammers vetting with Bayesian Filters?

[Coe, Bob]

Spammers will use address book hijacking with or without additional encouragement. But C-R is too slow and inconvenient to have much of an impact on email policies.

Bob


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Anthony Baxter [mailto:anthony at interlink.com.au]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2003 12:11 AM
> To: David McNab
> Cc: spambayes at python.org
> Subject: Re: [Spambayes] Spammers vetting with Bayesian Filters? 
> 
> 
> 
> >>> David McNab wrote
> 
> > Could challenge/response, with increasingly difficult turing tests,
> > become the norm?
> 
> I hope not. C-R systems have the potential to severely damage the
> usefulness of email. Look at how much damage has been done by crappy
> worm bounces flying back and forth. C-R will also encourage spammers
> to use address book hijacking - you release a worm that targets Outlook,
> and use it to send your spams to everyone in the victims addressbook.
> 
> Anthony