[Xitami] Xitami and PHP (fwd)

[Ron Ackerman]

There are many different spam stopping software's on the market and several
that request you return a coded reply so that your email is accepted but
more than likely he is able to put in accepted domains so that they
shouldn't happen. I used one for a bit but not on this account and have
since started using something else. Unfortunately with the amount of spam
the flows on the internet people are starting to take desperate actions in
order to stop it. I just returned from being gone for a week and had over
1000 messages with maybe less than 100 actual good messages. The ratio of
email to spam is growing at an alarming rate. So don't come done on folks
trying to get a handle on their email.

No need to reply, I get off my soapbox now.

Ron

-----Original Message-----
From: xitami-admin@lists.xitami.org
[mailto:xitami-admin@lists.xitami.org]On Behalf Of Brian {Hamilton
Kelly}
Sent: Sunday, April 18, 2004 12:01 PM
To: xitami@lists.xitami.org
Subject: Re: Re: [Xitami] Xitami and PHP (fwd)


Has anyone else seen this sort of stupidity when they post articles to
the list?  Quite frankly, I'm not going to play games with idiots who
so badly/sadly misconfigure their anti-spam measures that a post through
a mailing list becomes a false positive.  Especially, I'm not going to
visit a web-site which might just be a mechanism for harvesting known-
to-be-working e-mail addresses, perhaps even without the knowledge of
this mailing list subscriber.

If others have had such nonsensical "rejections" then perhaps the list
owner needs to have a quiet little word in the earhole of Erv.

Forwarded message follows:

> To: Brian {Hamilton Kelly} <bhk@dsl.co.uk>
> Subject: Re: Re: [Xitami] Xitami and PHP
> From: Spam Interceptor <devnull@si20.com>
> Message-Id: <E1BExa3-0004Pc-00@optimus>
> Sender: Spam Interceptor <siweb@solidblue.biz>
> Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2004 17:42:31 -0400
>
> Dear Brian {Hamilton Kelly},
>
> This is Erv Kosch. I am running Spam Interceptor to block spam email and
viruses. Please follow this link to verify that the message you sent is not
spam email.
>
>
>
> http://si20.com/auth?uid=xxxx&mid=xxx&sid=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

[I've obfuscated the details in the above that were personalized to
myself.]

>
> Your email was intercepted because it got a spam rating of 5.4 and I set
Spam Interceptor to ask everyone who sends me a message rated over 2 to
authenticate. When you authenticate I'll receive your email and you'll never
have to authenticate for me again, no matter what spam rating your emails
get.
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Erv Kosch

[snip]

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