Re: filtering of mailing lists and NATs

[Leo Vegoda]

You wrote:

> 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.

Another similarity to NATs is that you don't know how many people are
behind a single (subscribed) address. For instance, I read your message
via a local news server. Of course, this means that any attempt to work
out the utility value of a filtering system must fail.

I'm perfectly happy to filter messages to this list locally. To be
frank, it takes a very small amount of my time. Surely people who want
to subscribe to this list are capable of setting up local filters?

Regards,

-leo