Re: filtering of mailing lists and NATs

[Eric Rosen]

So, here are the choices:

1. Save thousands of people from having to deal with multiple spams per day,
   at the cost of presenting a minor inconvenience to a few, or

2. Require thousands  of people to receive  and deal with spam  (or to learn
   all about mail filtering), in order to avoid inconveniencing a few.

Easy decision  to make.   For every  bit of whining  by the  usual suspects,
there are thousands of  folks that are very happy to have  the spam kept out
of their mailbox automatically.  (Every  mailing list manager knows that the
whining by  Keith and Lloyd is nothing  compared to the whining  by the list
members as they get spammed multiple times per day.)

Indeed, this is a lot like the arguments re NAT.  There are the thousands of
people it helps, vs. the few who are yelling that the sky will fall if it is
not stamped out.