Perhaps you might consider this issue from another angle. When you consider
the number of person-hours spent dealing with SPAM, you could see that,
cumulatively, there are many hours wasted on unsolicited and undesired
emails. And, while each instance may be a matter of seconds or minutes, over
a year's time, SPAM from all sources constitutes a significant waste of
people's time and, thus, the SPAMer is a thief. It is a social problem but
it can be resolved with a technical solution.
Don't make me come over there, Scott...... :-)
"Hey, what do we need this IP stuff for? We got 300 character/second
teletype. Who's ever going to need more than that?..........." - Sparky, the
30 year two-wire man.
-----Original Message-----
From: Willis, Scott L [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2001 10:27 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: Mailing list policy
Which is the lesser of the two evils:
* Receiving an occasional SPAM Message
* Being Bombarded continually with complaints about SPAM Messages
The request has been issued to stop spamming on this
address. Why don't we return to normal IETF business at hand and just let
this issue pass. I'm sure there are others out there who is as fatigued as I
am about this moot point.
Have a nice day
-----Original Message-----
From: John Stracke
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2001 9:46 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Mailing list policy
Kevin Farley wrote:
> --- John Stracke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Today, if you want to
> > spam all of
> > them, you have to subscribe to all of
them, which is impractical.
(I spoke sloppily, by the way. For "today",
read "with separate filters
on every list".)
> Impractical, but through software, not
impossible. Could readily be
> automated.
If that's so, then subscriber filters won't
work; as soon as it becomes
profitable to do so, the spamware vendors
will include automated
subscription features.
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