On Wed, 2011-03-02 at 09:11 +0000, Jethro R Binks wrote: > On Tue, 1 Mar 2011, Always Learning wrote: > > > Still 100% spam free since 1 June 2010.
> I can be 100% spam free too, simply by turning my email service off. > > The % spam you receive is only useful when measured against the % of > non-spam that you don't receive (and should otherwise have done). Hi Jethro, I was always a fan of Gilmore Hill but I hear town centre Polys have improved tremendously ;-) Its simple. If someone wants to email us, we determine whether or not they can use our email system. If they can't get through, then that's their problem - not ours. They can try their luck with the sub-standard UK postal service or send a fax. Our email system exists for our benefit, not for the benefit of others wishing to communicate with us by email. Rather than be apologists for laziness, indifference or sloppiness of others and therefore accept whatever crap they send us, we are fortunate enough to run our systems our way. If more adopted our stance spam would dramatically decline. The bland willingness of sites to accept junk and dodgy emails perpetuates the spam nuisance. Some sites have absolutely no problem having a HELO with a matching DNS A record and including in their emails a Message-ID: Date: To: From: and Subject: so why should we embrace sites that can't be bothered? Surely standards should be raised, not lowered to accommodate as much crap as possible ? With best regards, Paul. England, EU. -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
