If I follow your line of, um, reasoning, any problem short of catastrophe is undeserving of our attention and anyone who takes such problems seriously (spam included) deserves ridicule.
Admittedly, adopting this premise would save the IETF a lot of work.... ;) "Book, Robert" wrote: > This email is reaching you, Greg, and I didn't attend the meeting........ > It is a dangerous world out there, what with all the unsolicited meeting > invitations via email, planes flying into buildings resulting in thousands > being killed, offers via email to purchase services, bombs exploding in or > near buildings resulting in thousands being killed, emails soliciting > advice,collaboration or friendship, and missiles and bullets being launched > and shot at people resulting in thousands being killed. > Makes you wonder why you want to live in this world, doesn't it??? > > -----Original Message----- > From: Gregory Neil Shapiro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, December 14, 2001 1:35 AM > To: Doug Royer > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Blue Sheet Etiquette > > Doug> Or do you think that spammers attend the IETF meeting just to get > Doug> email addresses? > > I can guarantee that they do. I use +detail addresses on the blue sheets > and I have on frequent occasions received spam to those addresses -- > specifically, recruiters and pay-your-own-way conference invites.
