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Spam Challenge Cédric is testing a simple challenge/response anti-spam method. Great! A simple system like that is definitely needed. The problem with Cédric's approach (and other challenge/response systems) is that they still leave a few problems unsolved. Requiring people to respond to the challenge is fine if they are the ones emailing you. There should be no challenge if someone is responding to an email you sent them. This is not an easy problem to fix because everything happens on the email client side.

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Steve is telling me that ASK addresses this issue by embedding a key in all outgoing messages. Although it did not work for me. Apparently Steve's key is his signature, which Thunderbird automatically removed when replying.

As Cédric mentioned, a whitelist is required to ensure that certain addresses or domains are never filtered. Spammer have gotten a lot smarter in the last few months. The sender's email address is often a valid address from the same domain as the recipient. How do you fight this? I get a lot of spam pretending to be from my wife @ thauvin.net, and I'm not about to bounce all mail coming from her. Company mail is even worse.

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Told you so… Diego is eloquently explaining why they stopped using Java Web Start with Clevercatus Share. This is a perfect example of what I was talking about last Friday. Mobidrone? I'm thinking about porting mobibot to Drone. I really like the modular API. Now I just need time… EclipseME If you're doing mobile development, you oughta check Craig's EclipseME plugin. I used it on BlueMonger (); it is blissfully simple to use.

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Spidey 2 We went to see Spider-Man 2 last night. I think I liked it a tad better than the first one.   Where'd it all go? One year ago, Jonathan said Sun (and partners) would spend hundreds of millions of dollars to promote the Java platform. Excuse me for being blunt, but… Where did it all go? A new logo and website hardly seems worth that much. Someone mentioned they saw a Java commercial, once, during a Hockey game. Is that it?

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