At 11:11 AM 2002-08-01 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: >Why does everyone always have to be so confrontational and aggressive >about things rather than assuming good will on the part of other people >for at least the first pass?
I sort of felt like they should have asked. I would have told them no, nicely. The fact that they simply signed themselves up to archive my lists bothered me a lot. As to the peach analogy, supposing I bring a bring a box of peaches to the office and I put up a sign, "Free Peaches, Take one" and you want to take a bunch home to your kids. If you want to take the whole box, you ask. That is more or less the right analogy: I have a service which is designed to be used in a certain way. If someone subscribes to every list in my domain, I get suspicious. I worry that they are simply harvesting e-mail addresses. I consider that net abuse, because I expect individuals who are interested in my lists to subscribe, not e-mail harversters, archivers, or the like. -- I always thought a gentleman was supposed to lie about such things. Nick Simicich mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://scifi.squawk.com/njs.html -- Stop by and Light Up The World!
