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If you still check the quarantine folder once a week, do you even need the challenge email? At most it will take a few days longer to reply to a valid email and
by dalai 8y ago
If you still check the quarantine folder once a week, do you even need the challenge email? At most it will take a few days longer to reply to a valid email and then you can whitelist the sender.
- BeetleB 8y agoThink of it as "if they respond to the challenge email it'll get in front of my eyes quicker". Also, keep in mind when I wrote it, I was getting 20-50 spam a day (not counting unsubscribe emails). And part of the motivation was that legitimate emails were simply getting lost (I wouldn't notice them in the sea of noise). Checking once a week would mean scanning hundreds of emails for the few legitimate ones. The challenge-response is more reliable. (Today I get almost no spam - someone fixed a broken pipe on the Internet).