On Thu, 21 Nov 2002 17:46:33 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote: <snip>
> Consider this analogy: > When a night club won't let some guys in the door because they aren't > wearing a coat and tie, they will lower the number of undesireable > customers they get, but they will frustrate many high-class gentlemen > who don't like to dress themselves up when doing a night on the town. > These kinds of gentlemen have two options. They can either go back > home and dress themselves up so as to be compliant with the night club's > standards, or they can just go to another club which has a more relaxed > dress code. > If I wear a coat and tie to go to a fancy night club, strangers who don't > know me will think of me as being a very gentlemanly high-class person. > If I try to get in the door while wearing dungarees and a t-shirt they > will think of me as a low-class person and likely an ill-mannered person > as well. > Using a hotmail or a yahoo email address in an attempt to mingle with > the regular customers of a high-class ISP is like dressing in dungarees > and a t-shirt to get into a high-class night club. Using an email > address of a "respectable" ISP is like dressing up in a coat and tie. > Successful night club managers are not just plain silly. They know what > they are doing and they know how to run their businesses in a way that > works best for them. They know what rules to make. A good analogy. But..... My ISP decided to block all eMails originating from any ISP in the .ru domain. (too many spams coming from .ru to suit their tastes) This prevented me from recieving any messages from Mithgol. Since Mithgol has not tried sending any messages to me recently... I don't know wheather or not the block has been removed. As you can see. Blocking eMails from particular ISPs or entire domains is not the answer. IMO, The answer to spam is. Delete 'em, forget 'em. -- Glenn http://arachne.cz/ http://www.delorie.com/listserv/mime/ http://www.angelfire.com/id/glenndoom/download.htm http://www.thispagecannotbedisplayed.com/
