Scott McNay wrote: > Hi John, > > Monday, March 10, 2008, 2:12:19 PM, you wrote: > > JD> Here is a follow up thought to this situation: Why not ad an extra > JD> confirmation stage to this process? When mail is submitted to the > JD> system and the capcha is completed, why not put the message in a > JD> buffer/queue? There it waits while a confirmation test is sent to > JD> the sender's email address. The user must then click a link or > JD> follow instructions (possibly both) to confirm his/her identity > JD> before the message goes out. Since most spam uses fake email > JD> addresses, wouldn't this stop a large number of attempts to abuse > JD> the system? > > That's what they just automatically finished signing up for, a valid > email address. The Google tech I sent that to thought it was reasonable and told me he would put it to the email team at their next meeting. -- Regards, John Durham <http://modecideas.com/contact.html?sig> ICQ number 497166248 Fax/Phone 64 4 5286786 Award winning web site at http://modecideas.com?sig Terms of trade at http://modecideas.com/lvl22.html?sig PC-HELPERS list subscribe/unsub at http://modecideas.com/discuss.htm?sig Good advice is like good paint- it only works if applied. -- -------list-services-below----------- Regards, John Durham (list moderator) <http://modecideas.com/contact.html?sig> Freelists login at http://www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/lsg2.cgi List archives at http://www.freelists.org/archives/pchelpers PC-HELPERS list subscribe/unsub at http://modecideas.com/discuss.htm?sig Latest news live feeds at http://modecideas.com/indexhomenews.htm?sig Good advice is like good paint- it only works if applied.