<html><head></head><body>I think that challenge and response systems like this are actively harmful and should be discouraged.<br>
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They don't reduce spam, they redirect it at innocent victims.<br>
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Scott K<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">Chuck Frain <chuck@chuckfrain.net> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre style="white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap:break-word; font-family: sans-serif">Bernie uses a email verification program for when new people email him.<br />What I am guessing is that a piece of spam coming to the CALUG list (for<br />which he is an admin) triggered the response and it was sent to the<br />mailing list due to the forged headers of the original spam message.<br />Please ignore it as it is, in its current form, harmless. <br /><br />Chuck<br /><br />On Wed, 07 Mar 2012, John Alan Hastings wrote:<br /><br />> I just got a very strange email, which purports to come from<br />> karmilow<at>intencorp<dot>com.<br />> <br />> The headers do not look like anything I have send -- or would.<br />> <br />> Am I being fished? Are we being fished? Have I been hacked? Is it<br />> legitemate?<br />> <br />> The time of the message is 9.53 am, which is also strange since it is<br />> now 5.06 pm.<br />> <br />> Alan<br />>
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/>> <br />> The message is:<br />> <br /><br />-- <br />Chuck Frain <br />GPG Key: B2420431<br /><a href="http://www.chuckfrain.net">http://www.chuckfrain.net</a><br /><br /><hr /><br />CALUG mailing list<br />CALUG@unknownlamer.org<br /><a href="http://lists.unknownlamer.org/listinfo/calug">http://lists.unknownlamer.org/listinfo/calug</a><br /><br /></pre></blockquote></div></body></html>