Alan Connor([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > Depends on what you call "false positives." I don't accept anonymous email. > Period. > > If anyone wants me to read their mail, then they are going to have to prove > to me that the address they are using is their actual machine. (Or *I* have > established this in advance.) > > > Given the current obsession with matters of security, and the fact that it > IS, as you state above, so easy to falsify *some* headers, I think that anyone > who objects to taking a moment to offer some reasonable level of proof of their > identity is pretty silly. > > The same people who will log in over and over again to a website, sometimes > several times a day, for years on end, are freaking out over having to resend > 1 email, one time, to establish a communications link with someone. > > Many of them won't accept a phone call if the caller has blocked their > number....... > > > The fact is, I believe, that most of them have commercial dreams and want > people to block everyone's spam but THEIRS. > > And/or, they want to just fire off messages, often abusive, to anyone they > feel like, invading and violating that person's privacy. > > Many, obviously, actually like spam, and want to receive SOME of it, but > not the rest. Experience has shown that this is impossible. > > > So they don't like C-R systems because they WORK, not because they don't. > > I downloaded my mail an hour ago, and 14 messages went to /dev/null. I didn't > bother to check the logs, but if I did, I would find that about half had > headers so malformed that no auto-response was sent. The balance received > a reply IF they used their real email address. > > Those that did use their real address and decide that talking to me is not > worth re-sending 1 mail, won't do it, and that's fine. I don't want people like > that to have access to my mail box. > > Or, they were using a false address and didn't receive the reply... > > > A well-designed C-R program, like mine, works PERFECTLY. No commercials and > no riff-raff have access to my mailbox, which is how I want it. > Sorry to hear that. I must be riff-raff then as I sent you a msg about the msp program not allowing me to enter PASS addresses. I answered your bot and replied with the same mail, including your PASSWD on the Subject line. I never got an answer. So I guess "A well-designed C-R program,like mine, works PERFECTLY." is in the mind of the beholder. Anyway, it was fun while it lasted. Of course you wouldn't know that I sent you a message as your system S...cans it. I'll keep using SA and mailfilter. At least they tell me if I screwed up a rule, so I can fix it.
<thinking> Now lets see, how to I killfile this rant </thinking> Wayne -- To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer. _______________________________________________________ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]