Re: [OT] Re: Spam because of this list

2003-10-07 Thread Chris Cheney
On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 04:35:12AM +0200, Thomas Ritter wrote: > Am Dienstag, 7. Oktober 2003 03:30 schrieb Antiphon: > > I don't have any faith in anti-spam legislation. There's no way laws can > > stop spam. It's like pornography, religions, drugs and guns. The more you > > try to regulate it, th

Re: [OT] Re: Spam because of this list

2003-10-06 Thread Antiphon
You prove my point :-D Enough people will always want drugs, pr0n, guns, religion, and spam products that you'll never be able to stop them from getting (or attempting to get) it, including money from former Nigerian vice presidents. None of which is to say that these five things are similar i

Re: [OT] Re: Spam because of this list

2003-10-06 Thread Thomas Ritter
Am Dienstag, 7. Oktober 2003 03:30 schrieb Antiphon: > I don't have any faith in anti-spam legislation. There's no way laws can > stop spam. It's like pornography, religions, drugs and guns. The more you > try to regulate it, the less you'll succeed at stopping it. Spam is a > problem created by te

Re: [OT] Re: Spam because of this list

2003-10-06 Thread Antiphon
Well, I'm kind of bummed out about the whole thing now. Chris's point is correct that there are other places where debian-kde is archived and that getting everyone to change en masse would be difficult to do. I don't have any faith in anti-spam legislation. There's no way laws can stop spam. It

[OT] Re: Spam because of this list

2003-10-06 Thread Michael Peddemors
Again, as mentioned by many people, if you don't want Spam, use and ISP service that provides Spam blocking.. If you can't use an ISP with that service, buy a POP address from any of the ISP's that sell just POP mailboxes with full Anti-Spam features.. (Usually about $5/month) This is an issue