Comments on: Hotmail will start fighting spam — starting with legitimate mail http://tjaard.nl/2005/06/24/hotmail-will-start-fighting-spam-starting-with-legitimate-mail/ Lobet den Herrn Wed, 08 Sep 2010 10:54:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.2 Comment on Hotmail will start fighting spam — starting with legitimate mail by: Tjaard http://tjaard.nl/2005/06/24/hotmail-will-start-fighting-spam-starting-with-legitimate-mail/#comment-94 Fri, 24 Jun 2005 15:53:17 +0000 http://tjaard.nl/2005/06/24/hotmail-will-start-fighting-spam-starting-with-legitimate-mail/#comment-94 First of all, the error with comments needs work, but I figured that asking a question is a better option than captchas when it comes to preventing comment spam while remaining usable to the visually disabled. But marking it as required is a good point. Now about spf: while it is true that if everyone uses it it may help, I doubt whether the timing is right when less than 1 in 70 domains uses spf records. Gradual introduction and standardization of techniques like this one is good, but bluntly start burdening end users with a move that obviously has a great deal of political motivation behind it most certainly isn't. That is, if the whole thing has a significant impact on spam to begin with. By the way, I know that this isn't exactly the most rationally motivated post I made, I guess it's the hot weather that has gotten to my head... though I'd still frown upon this whole mandatory sender ID thing. First of all, the error with comments needs work, but I figured that asking a question is a better option than captchas when it comes to preventing comment spam while remaining usable to the visually disabled. But marking it as required is a good point.

Now about spf: while it is true that if everyone uses it it may help, I doubt whether the timing is right when less than 1 in 70 domains uses spf records. Gradual introduction and standardization of techniques like this one is good, but bluntly start burdening end users with a move that obviously has a great deal of political motivation behind it most certainly isn’t. That is, if the whole thing has a significant impact on spam to begin with.

By the way, I know that this isn’t exactly the most rationally motivated post I made, I guess it’s the hot weather that has gotten to my head… though I’d still frown upon this whole mandatory sender ID thing.

]]> Comment on Hotmail will start fighting spam — starting with legitimate mail by: Marten Veldthuis http://tjaard.nl/2005/06/24/hotmail-will-start-fighting-spam-starting-with-legitimate-mail/#comment-93 Fri, 24 Jun 2005 13:49:56 +0000 http://tjaard.nl/2005/06/24/hotmail-will-start-fighting-spam-starting-with-legitimate-mail/#comment-93 Oh, and your comments are broken. The "How much is..." question doesn't say it's required, and if you don't fill it in you get a weird error about comments being closed. Oh, and your comments are broken. The “How much is…” question doesn’t say it’s required, and if you don’t fill it in you get a weird error about comments being closed.

]]> Comment on Hotmail will start fighting spam — starting with legitimate mail by: Marten Veldthuis http://tjaard.nl/2005/06/24/hotmail-will-start-fighting-spam-starting-with-legitimate-mail/#comment-92 Fri, 24 Jun 2005 13:49:00 +0000 http://tjaard.nl/2005/06/24/hotmail-will-start-fighting-spam-starting-with-legitimate-mail/#comment-92 Oh come on, Sender ID is based on SPF records and you really oughta have one of those for your domain. Oh come on, Sender ID is based on SPF records and you really oughta have one of those for your domain.

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