{"id":3900,"date":"2005-11-06T12:40:19","date_gmt":"2005-11-06T12:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/sender-verification-goes-mainstream.html"},"modified":"2005-11-06T12:40:19","modified_gmt":"2005-11-06T12:40:19","slug":"sender-verification-goes-mainstream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/sender-verification-goes-mainstream.html","title":{"rendered":"Sender Verification Goes Mainstream"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: \"Times New Roman\"; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA\"><font size=\"2\">Challenge-response technology has been around for awhile and it is one solution to block spam. I sent an e-mail to someone yesterday in response to a press release they sent me. In response I received a challenge e-mail. This e-mail requested I respond to the e-mail to make sure the sender knows I am a real person and not an automated spam blaster. I did respond.<\/p>\n<p>But of course the funny thing is that the sender sent me the first e-mail so my address should have been in their \u201cgood\u201d list to begin with.<\/p>\n<p>I found it quite ironic that while I was going through my spam folder today, I noticed an e-mail in the box saying I am now allowed to send e-mail to this person.<\/p>\n<p>The concept of a spam folder is intriguing as I still have to check it. I spend at least 45 minutes each day checking this folder and I have many rules to not only ensure bad e-mail goes into this folder but rules to make sure good e-mail goes back into my inbox. I have other rules that permanently delete e-mail.<\/p>\n<p>I recently wrote about <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/voip\/an-end-to-spam.html\"><font size=\"2\">Goodmail\u2019s CertifiedEmail<\/font><\/a><font size=\"2\"> system. I hope systems like this enable us to reduce the torrent of spam messages we all receive.<\/p>\n<p>Most importantly I hope technology gets us to the point where we don\u2019t have to worry about having a crucial e-mail getting deleted accidentally. If we ever solve the spam problem I imagine world productivity will increase nicely. E-mail as a delivery system not only delivers spam but viruses and worms which also zap productivity.<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Challenge-response technology has been around for awhile and it is one solution to block spam. I sent an e-mail to someone yesterday in response to a press release they sent me. In response I received a challenge e-mail. This e-mail requested I respond to the e-mail to make sure the sender knows I am a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3900"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3900\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}