On 5/18/05, Tom Gal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think it would be safe to say that you should be careful where you > bring things like this up. I'd venture to say on this list you will > probably get some insightful comments, but I'm not sure how many > people on this list are really up to speed on what's going on out > there in the anti-spam world.
I'd venture to say you could get away with it some, but I just want to warn you, Tom, that you should be careful, because you come across as a little bit arrogant. As you said, this *isn't* an IETF spam working group list. It's KPLUG. In some ways, this list isn't about producing results in any particular domain, but rather about community, discussion, and getting technical help in general. And on another point, I felt that your criticism of Mike's solution as not being the all-in-one that will solve the problem once and for all was misplaced. Perhaps the Internet Powers* won't adopt that technique, and for the reasons you stated. But since us mere mortals aren't Internet Powers, we may not have the same requirements when searching for solutions as they do. *"Internet Powers" makes me think of _A Fire Upon the Deep_. I do something similar to your idea, Mike. My regular email address is my name at hardboot.org. But when I'm giving an email address to marketers and others I don't trust to not spam me or cause me to be spammed, I'll give them something regular like $my_name dash $their_name at hardboot.org. Any mail to any unspecified address at hardboot.org gets forwarded to me, but if I start getting spam from them, I can blackhole that particular email address. It's of limited (real world) use, but it helps a little. -todd -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
