[AccessD] OT Friday: Comodo AntiSpam

...what happens when a new, potential client e-mails you?

...I'm with Gustav, the initial e-mail gave me a negative reaction ...but 
then, like you, I'm dependent on my ISP's filtering and its far from perfect 
so I'm open to anything that helps ...question is of course, does this 
really help or hinder in the long run?

William Hindman

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "jwcolby" <jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com>
To: "'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'" 
<accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Friday, August 10, 2007 10:24 AM
Subject: Re: [AccessD] OT Friday: Comodo AntiSpam


> 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
>
> ---
>>>> <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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