> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Aug 1 02:29:38 2003
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 01:36:14AM -0500, Jesse Meyer wrote:
> > On Thu, 31 Jul 2003, Alan Connor wrote:
> > > Spam is UCE (unsolicited commercial email) and stopping it can only
> > > be done with a Challenge-Response mail program, such as the one I
> > > put together. There isn't ANY other approach that works.
> >
> > Spam tends to be an automated, bulk emailing of addresses, but not all
> > automated, bulk emailing of addresses are spam.
>
> Yup. For example, I can guarantee you that the people operating the
> Debian bug tracking system don't always bother to respond to
> "challenges". If people don't want BTS mail, that's their problem; we
> don't have time to babysit that sort of thing.
>
> --
> Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
It's getting late :-)
I should have added that debian.org is on my pass list. The domain name.
Anyone mailing me from any address there wouldn't even know I was running
a C-R system.
I have in fact been mailed several times by various folks at
bugs.debian.org, Rob McQueen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> among them.
Alan
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