Earthlink And The Devil’s Spam Filter

Macworld’s Christopher Breen speaks out against unnecessary Challenge/Response:

Breaking away from the traditional Q&A format today, I’d like to offer a small piece of advice to Earthlink customers:
Earthlink’s spamBlocker is the tool of the devil if it’s not configured properly.¹

Footnotes

Christopher Breen, Earthlink and the Devil’s Spam Filter, Macworld, https://www.macworld.com/article/192066/earthlinkspam.html (last visited Aug 22, 2008). ↩︎

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