On Fri, 1 Aug 2003 22:06:42 +0200, David Fokkema <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> If you decide to go off channel and send a mail in private, why not > just reply to a resent request? As a matter of principle, I refuse to jump through these ridiculous hoops. > At least with tmda (and I gather, also with Alan's program) you are > automatically added to the whitelist. _If_ you decide to go off > channel, you only have to reply _once_. I happen to disagree with adding innocent people to the collateral damage caused by spammers; so tmda requests are, in my eyes, spam, and are treated as such. I often lurk on these fora in order to see if I can help people; and I am darned if I am going to jump through hoops to help people out. If they do not wish to hear my answers, or responses to bugs, etc, well, heck, I am surely not going to intrude where I am not wanted. > As Richard already said, why not just accept (or at least tolerate) > both filtering and C-R? Because I prefer spending my time elsewhere, and in my opinion, more productively (perhaps answering some other question). I also refuse to join these efforts in which the balance of effort for spam prevention has been shifter to the correspondent; I think this is letting spammers gain more control of my activities than I wish to allow them to do. > With tmda, your mail is not sent to /dev/null. It is queued and a > challenge is sent back. You only have to reply, with or without the > body, add nothing, do nothing, don't look up your sentmail folder, > or whatever. Just reply. I don't use C-R myself (I use > SpamAssassin), but am rather sympathetic towards C-R. Well, since all these tmda stuff is sent to the spam bit bucket, I am unlikely to reply. If anyone is interested in my email, _they_ can act to see to it that they can get to my email. I don't care to correspond with people who expect to plead to be recognized (even if such grovelling is supposedly a minor inconvenience to me). manoj -- "Let me control a planet's oxygen supply, and I don't care who makes the laws." Great Cthuhlu's Starry Wisdom Band (via Roger Leroux) Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.debian.org/%7Esrivasta/> 1024R/C7261095 print CB D9 F4 12 68 07 E4 05 CC 2D 27 12 1D F5 E8 6E 1024D/BF24424C print 4966 F272 D093 B493 410B 924B 21BA DABB BF24 424C -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]