On Thu, 13 Mar 2003, Gre7g Luterman wrote:
> There's a lot of brain-dead users, novices, newbies, grandparents, and
> the like out there that just don't read. I wish it weren't the case,
> but it is. A ton of people who get an e-mail reply immediately after
> they send a letter just figure it is a bounce message. They shrug,
> delete it, and go on with their life. Or so it seems.
So where's the problem? If they sent it, it's in your pending queue. It's
not lost until the message expires or you delete it. They'll call to say
"Didn't you get that compromising photo of Aunt Ginny with the mail man?"
and you can then release it from your pending queue if they're too dumb to
do it themselves.
The grandmother thing just doesn't wash...unless you hate her enough to
blacklist her, use a three-minute dated address, or otherwise try and
avoid getting her email. Close family is probably already in your
whitelist, and if not, they know where you live. :)
Mostly, I object to the feature on two grounds:
1. It's wasteful. If *they* want to communicate with *you*, they
need to make some kind of effort. That's the whole point of TMDA.
2. You can't get away from the pending queue. The idea that this
mail will forever be lost assumes that you never look at your
pending queue. This is rather bad policy.
Why not just add:
alias bt='tmda-pending -bT'
to your environment, and daily/weekly run bt to see if there's anything
that slipped through the cracks? Or do it as a cron job, and
periodically get a summary email showing your spam and the occasional
misplaced missive from a cousin you didn't know you had and haven't yet
whitelisted?
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