Re: [seul-edu] Brazilian anti-spam measures

[Felipe Bergo <bergo@seul.org>]

On Wed, 23 Jul 2003, Leon Brooks wrote:

> On Wed, 23 Jul 2003 12:01, gordon wrote:
> > Second, after sending my first message I got an anti spam kind of
> > email from
>
> >          AntiSpam UOL <mprinfo.sspam@uol.com.br>
> >      To:
> >          gordon@truechem.ca
>
> > Is this legitimate?

Legitimate, but very stupid.

> Yes, but it's highly annoying and so I've stopped filling it in (except
> for this message, so the recipient hopefully gets the point).

This stupid provider claims to have developed the best anti-spam vaccine
in the world, which requires that you confirm every email sent to an UOL
user in a web form, which basically makes these people an annoyance to
mailing lists and impossible to mail from cell phones without a web
browser. I expelled every @uol.com.br user from the mailing lists I manage
(these are not related to SEUL / schoolforge). Their method avoids spam by
avoiding reception of emails, much like rm / del provides 100% data
compression. (People who pay for a crippled email service, tsk tsk)

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