But company spokesman Nicholas Graham says AOL won adopt challenge-response because having to send out 2 billion challenges a day would tax the system. And why create delays for subscribers?
“They don’t want to hear ‘You got mail and you just have to wait a few minutes longer,'” Graham said. “They expect to get E-mail quickly and responses quickly.” Anderson said EarthLink has developed the system over several months to minimize the burden on users and list administrators. Standards call for messages from mailing lists to come with a priority code marked “list” or “bulk.” EarthLink’s software wouldn’t challenge such messages. But because spammers can easily incorporate such coding, such messages would be sorted to a “suspect mail” folder. The pre-approved sender scheme also difficulties because it doesn’t work well with Yahoo Groups and other services where multiple list members post. Online receipts from Amazon.com and other E-commerce sites also create problems; because they are automated, they won’t respond to challenges. Robert Craddock, chief executive of challenge-response developer DirectPop.net, said that although the system requires legitimate senders to do more w
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