I'm trying to figure out how these Turing tests would be used for filtering email.
Right now, whenever you want to send email via Outlook Express, you would compose a letter. This letter would be send via your machine directly to the SMTP server your ISP provides, then it would be sent through the network, finding its way onto the POP3 server, which would hold it for the receiver either to access directly using Telnet (or a web-based email reader) or download onto his/her computer for reading.
Where would the request for a Turing test occur? From the receiver's POP3 server? What form would the test take, an email back to the sender? Would the answer then be confirmed by the POP3 server before greenlighting the original email?
I guess the same could be applied to the SMTP server, especially for large ISPs, but this COULD be circumvented by spammers exploiting smaller ISPs that don't utilize these tests.
Help me out, you geeks.
BTW, Bill Gates is evil.
Right now, whenever you want to send email via Outlook Express, you would compose a letter. This letter would be send via your machine directly to the SMTP server your ISP provides, then it would be sent through the network, finding its way onto the POP3 server, which would hold it for the receiver either to access directly using Telnet (or a web-based email reader) or download onto his/her computer for reading.
Where would the request for a Turing test occur? From the receiver's POP3 server? What form would the test take, an email back to the sender? Would the answer then be confirmed by the POP3 server before greenlighting the original email?
I guess the same could be applied to the SMTP server, especially for large ISPs, but this COULD be circumvented by spammers exploiting smaller ISPs that don't utilize these tests.
Help me out, you geeks.
BTW, Bill Gates is evil.
