[David H. Bailey, about white-list spam:]
>The person who is responsible won't get your angry note and can't
>respond to your demand to stop it, since it is an automated e-mail
>barrier that nothing can pass unless the originator follows the dictates.
I think people who do this are being rude and arrogant. They are
effectively saying, "My time is more important than yours, because I'm going to
waste everyone else's time in order to save some of my own".
The Orchestra List has also recently been plagued by automated spam from
two individuals who do this (who never post, as far as I've noticed). Some
postings I made, I got an automated response from each of these people.
Why should I enter information in the form they provide? - especially when
I don't know how that information may be used, or to whom it may be passed. And
why should I *care* whether they get my messages, or whether I go on their black
list (which must be huge, too)?
>Just expand your trash filter to include this new fool and let it go,
>there's nothing anybody except Henry Howey, as list-owner, can do about it.
Well, would there be any future in asking Henry to do something about it?
And maybe to bar posting from non-members? Most lists I'm on require you to be
a member in order to post messages. However, Henry seems to want to leave
things exactly as they are, although I haven't read that he ever actually said
so. But he just didn't make the requested changes.
Well, I think he did once say he favoured a liberal approach to running the
list, and not to play the role of a heavy-handed moderator, policing what people
say. I agree with that - but perhaps there are a few things that might
beneficially be changed: such as barring non-member posts (usually from
spammers), and maybe suspending the membership of people who use spam filters
that (ironically) spam the entire list, until they adjust it not to do so.
You would think, if they insist on having a white list for admissible
senders, they would surely add to their white list any mailing list they
subscribe to.
Regards,
Michael Edwards.
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