On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 10:20:33AM -0400, David Crane wrote: > For the sake of the list, please change the policy of posting > e-mail addresses on the web and in news groups. For the sake of the open community, for accountability and the benefit of the Debian community please _do not_ change the policy. David, I enjoy you posts as I enjoy everyone's posts on this list but as a fellow contributor I want the ability to contact you and I want you to have the ability to contact me. Maybe you don't see or understand the point but for me it's a matter of community. When I ask or even search the archives I'm admitting I'm vulnerable, and I really would prefer to not take help from [EMAIL PROTECTED], thank you.
> We do use mailfilter and spamassassin. But we are losing mail. We > have a 56K modem and a ISP with POP mail, and they limit us to a > couple of megabytes. Not everyone can afford DSL, and we don't want > to keep the computer on all the time. We definitely won't want to > automatically dialup ever few hours to clean out the damn Swen > mails. Did you file a complaint with your ISP? Did you investigate alternative providers? Did you write to the BBB or your senator/congressperson (or any elected officials that are part of your government)? If your technical solutions are not working to your needs why did you not attempt to use the protections/feedback methods provide by your society? > My Swen volume had dropped to a manageable one per day since my last > post here around six weeks ago. I posted last night (helping > someone fight Swen), and this morning, there were 20+ Swens, over 3 > Megabytes. I was *that* close to losing e-mail. Never again. Think and act my friend! Unlike the virus you can pick up the phone and get try to find a sympathetic person inside the ISP. Ask them to set up some filters for you. One simple one would be to reject all emails larger than ~40KB. Setup a separate, private, email address for your friends and family who want to send you large attachments. There are a million other technical stopgap solutions that can be implemented - few of which would be so sad as obfuscating the address of posters. > > I am not being allowed to post again to this list from this account > (I'm sneaking in this one last post, figuring 12 hours won't matter > much). A sad goodbye -- my next post will come from a hotmail > account. I'm Bill Gates and Steve B. will be using you as a statistic before long: Linux users use Hotmail! Study shows.... -Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]