I wouldn't have thought you cpunks would wait for an ISP to change
their policies. :-) Surely you're all running a real OS... :)
Tim
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> The problem is that most ISP's nowadays either don't allow shell
> accounts or don't allow Sendmail pipes to user defined programs.
> Brightmail seems to have a good rep though, and it is free for the
> individual user.
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> James D. Wilson, CCDA, MCP
> "non sunt multiplicanda entia praeter necessitatem"
> William of Ockham (1285-1347/49)
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> Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2000 11:52 PM
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> Subject: CP All these silly filtering proposals...
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> I don't think that the real potential of subject line based filtering
> has been seen by all participants. There is no need to change the
> existing backbone because the process can be implemented purely by
> local action. Each user who didn't want to see spam or clueless posts
> (at least clueless posts from newbies) would filter their own email
> feed.
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> On many systems this can be achieved by a simple procmail recipe; on
> some it might be directly supplied by email user agents (on usenet trn
> will do the trick, for example).
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> All that is required is that a critical mass of particpants
> voluntarily decide
> to follow the convention.
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> Of course if operators wish to extend the backbone with options for
> a pre-filtered feed, there is no objection to that in principle.
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> > Without effecting the backbone or implimenting some sort of regular
> > communications channel between operators (both against the intial
> charter)
> > then all the current proposals are simply bogus.
> >
> > If the basic backbone is altered from its current status then the
> spammers
> > and those opposed to the Cypherpunk credo (and democratic thought as
> well)
> > will have won. It is a an overt admission that speech must be
> moderated
> > and that poeple in general, and technology in particular, has no
> solution.
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