-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 > Not all incoming mail ... just from people like Aaron who made an attempt to > help you when you requested it. You asked for help, and I would say making > the helpers jump through hoops to communicate with you would be rather > annoying. As was said ... there are other (nicer) ways to go about what you > want to accomplish.
And via my whitelist I had made provisions for the response via the means that I initiated the request. I am not psychic, I cannot guess which email address someone is going to send email from. Come on, now. > Investing minutes into good discussions is well worth my time ... but I think > my time is too valuable to waste in an unnecessary process like signing up to > white lists. It's not unnecessary to me. Those are the conditions under which I have decided I will accept your email. It's my time versus your time and since I'm not in control of your time, I can only look after my backyard. If you decide that my conditions are not acceptable then so be it. Much like you have decided that clicking a link is too much work for you invest, I may well decide that clicking the authorize button for your email is too much work. Those are our choices to make. > SA has white lists. And it's all up to you what goes in it. See? Whitelists are a valid method of controlling spam. > Well you got the email sure ... but you annoyed someone who was trying to > offer their assistance ... and all because you want to do it your way. As > pointed out ... there are other options that do not force your choice upon > everyone else. Quite honestly, Aaron's reply had nothing to do with helping me. We were just chatting. But you're right, I want it my way. That's what this whole thing is all about right, choice? > um ... not really ... challenge / response white lists only work after they > first receive a challenge. If your reply was the first challenge ... that's > how it works. Incorrect. An integral part of the challenge/response mechanism is the whitelist. 99% of the people who send me email never get a challenge even if it's the first time they've emailed me. Challenge/response doesn't work without a whitelist. You're mistaking me with someone who doesn't proactively manage their whitelist. I think we need to put this into perspective. I didn't kick anyone's cat here, I just didn't foresee Aaron's email coming in to me via his personal email address. Sheesh.... -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEfJ5c6jAfD5wb5y4RAqHXAJwMtdf+pCSNDSaupUarwikB1fjgEgCfU/Jw vUhQuBLmtLzOO7t/RMZ3Qzs= =Yxlo -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
