> It seems that once again a taiwan.com address has been subscribed > to this mailing list. In case you haven't noticed, taiwan.com > has a very broken mailer, which sends an error message to > whoever posts anything on this list. Apart from this being > annoying (especially since the date on taiwan.com's mail server > is one day into the future), I have in the past received several > spam mails from taiwan.com. I have no reason to believe that > my address was not harvested from this list, so I think it would > be in the interest of everyone here to have taiwan.com banned. > Is this a reasonable request, or should I just ask the admin > of my mail server to add a filter? > > //C > > database,sql,query,table
Carl, I have just spent over three weeks trying to reestablish email contact with a personal friend in the States. Someone at my ISP has apparently been ACCUSED of spamming someone at his ISP. The reaction was to 'bounce' all email between the two domains. The fact that I have my own sub-domain completely escaped their attention/interest. The baby was thrown out with the bathwater! I have finally managed to get the two ISPs talking (not an easy task when one is 'bouncing' the other's domain!) Duh!!!??? Freedom of speech: <<insert standard speech here>> Open systems begins with the word "open": <<insert speech about the principle of banning in general, here>> Like any 'security' measure, as fast as you build a wall, the 'bad guys' are figuring a way over/under/around/through it... Although we are both Vets and 11Nov a very significant date on our calendar, resist the temptation to <<talk about having fought for "freedom and justice, blah, blah, blah>>> Personally I hate spam. I'm also ticked off by list-bounce msgs. However I was mightily insulted to be unfairly and unjustly banned - and left with no means of recourse (guilty until proven innocent, which is not my memory of the intent of the American Constitution as I pointed out to my Yankee tormentors) - and all because (at least one of) the two ISPs couldn't be bothered to speak nicely with the other - and that all because some person in the States felt that hitting the DELete key or installing a rules/filter was more hassle (for him/her)... To prevent the waste of bandwidth the 'higher' up the food-chain these people can be shut-down, the better. However automated bans carry a 'risk' of shutting out some of the 'good' in a doomed-attempt to 'prevent' the 'bad'. Therefore the 'higher up' the filter, the greater amount of 'good' gets caught up and unjustly banned (think of the filter on this list which does not include "data analysis", apparently not even "MySQL" (read the warning msg), and certainly not a list of all the MySQL commands...and how often that incorrectly slaps-down genuine contributors. Ultimately spam is a personal taste (both the meat product and the email variety) - some people like email advertising (and don't think it's spam). Today in and amongst the viagra, porn, won-holidays, and get-rich-quick schemes I found my first advert for a squirrel-proof winter bird feeder. The first was almost amusing. The next will definitely be spam! Our newspapers and magazines are full of irrelevant advertising, but we learned to 'deal with them' and now barely even notice. Recommend the list leave filtering alone. Recommend you (with apologies), I, and everyone else affected, install personal/client email filtering, tuned to our own personal tastes and irritation-factors. =dn --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php
