john rigby wrote: >I think I will go away......................... >(sigh) > "You may create the greatest library in the world, but if the ignorant >are both vain and ignorant, it will mean nothing even after their freedom >bleeds away. That is the fundamental problem of all social advancement " > Book 1: Ku a'la 4,880 years >ago...................... nothing changes much. > >For the odd few who care about more than just grabbing freebies......... It >is VERY worth while to go read this: > > http://www.talkbiz.com/assassin.html > >It DOES explain where a lot of your mail has gone! > >Cheers, > >John > > >----- Original Message ----- >From: Tom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Saturday, April 06, 2002 7:50 PM >Subject: Re: [newbie] very scary stuff. Your rights ARE vanishing - being >assasinated... > > >On Friday 05 April 2002 03:22 pm, john rigby wrote: > >>Hello folks, >> > > howdy partner > >>This is not off-topic! This is a probable reason that we are all >>having more and more email problems. >> > > > mostly your posts, but i'll bite > >Nope, I've got a large d/l goin (kde3 updates) can't spare the >bandwidth, 'sides it's more fun to reply in ignorance > > > >--- >_____________________________________________________ >All *MY* communications are certified virus-free. Why not yours? >Ask here for full info - *and* get it free. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). >Version: 6.0.344 / Virus Database: 191 - Release Date: 2/04/02 > > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > Actually, the site has a valid point. Dial-Up Lists or DULs are used by a lot of servers to _reject_ email. This means that if you are on a dial-up or more improtantly, your IP is on their record as belonging to a dial-up block, your mail is kicked and neither received nor relayed. DUL as the acronym is also a good description of the mentality to think of such an action. Most spammers are rapacious businessmen, or con men or attorneys (don't forget attorneys _invented_ spam), and they are unlikely to set up a dial-up with postfix running so they can transmit spam traceably from their own computers... Instead they will use AOL free trial hours or freemail services. So the DUL is a blot on email and little more, value as anti-spam is infinitesimal.
And in the same was that anti-virus people hype their products to sell to gullible users of linux as well as windows, anti-spam people hype second-rate products that work more like a blackboard eraser, nuking your email rather than surgically striking at it. And it is on-topic for this and every other mailing list. Most anti-spam is trash. Civileme
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