Re: [Asrg] Email passwords

[Seth Breidbart <sethb at panix.com>]

"Tim Bedding" <tim.bedding at polyhedra.com> wrote:
> David Wheeler and everyone

>> It's a trivial approach. Just designate some word/phrase as your
>> email password. If a message has the email password in the subject
>> line, rank the message as much less likely to be spam,
>> or just throw it immediately into your Inbox.
>
> This strikes me as similar to the challenge-response schemes
> that some have placed on their email addresses.

Except: If you have a password, and a spammer forges email from me to
you without the password, I don't get spammed by your C/R
autoresponder.  Since it's a purely passive mechanism, I (as a
potential third-party victim of spammers) have no objection to it.

Seth

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