[AccessD] OT Friday: Comodo AntiSpam

jwcolby jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com
Fri Aug 10 09:24:50 CDT 2007


Gustav,

As soon as I pick you up on the control panel I "allow" your email so in
fact you do not have to respond.  Your email as well as every one else on
the list that has popped up so far is now coming right through because I
manually "allowed" you to.  Either way, you respond or I allow, it only has
to be done one time and then it works just fine.  

I have not had time yet to evaluate the full impact, but I am a small
company, with a small number of regular correspondents (with the exception
of this list).  

I can appreciate the "challenge / response sucks" mentality but I don't have
a mail server under my control.  I use the pop server that comes with my web
site.  This works at the client level and so I am trying it.

My apologies for any inconvenience.


John W. Colby
Colby Consulting
www.ColbyConsulting.com 
-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Gustav Brock
Sent: Friday, August 10, 2007 10:06 AM
To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com
Subject: [AccessD] OT Friday: Comodo AntiSpam

Hi JC et al

JC has sent this out, so now you cannot get to him directly. Aside the good
intentions behind doing so, this will cause a lot of trouble, and I don't
say too much if I - as a general warning - mention that the consensus
between system people is, that as tempting these challenge-response system
my seem, they represent a bad idea because the negative impact outweighs the
positive.

If you or your client run a mail server, I can strongly recommend
SpamBunker:

http://www.aimconsulting.ch/Spambunker/sbk-strategy.asp 

which is not free but cheap, and is superior to the common mail filtering
systems. Thus, it requires no "learning", no maintenance, it works from the
minute it is installed, and it handles massive amount of spam and/or mail
even on modest hardware. We operate it here where we went from about 4000
spam mails per day to a handful per week after we had been under a week long
attack with constantly 20 connections and more than 16000 connections per
day.

As a result we now promote this to our clients with serious spam troubles.

/gustav

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>>> <jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com> 10-08-2007 13:58 >>>
Hi, it's jwcolby.
I finally decided I'd had enough of junk mail, and installed a fantastic
application that gets rid of it all.
Unfortunately, you are not yet in my trusted senders list!! The only way
I'll get your emails is if you follow the steps outlined below:

Here's all you have to do:

1. Press Reply
2. In the body of the reply, type in my AntiSpam Passcode contained in the
graphical attachment.
3. Press Send

When I receive this reply, I will know that it was really you that sent me
the email and not a computerized spammer. I will then be able to receive all
your mail. This authentication will be done only once.

Thank you & have a great day,
jwcolby

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