MattyJ wrote:
I think what it will mostly do is annoy and irritate people trying to send the legitimate mail. If I ever got one of these messages from my friends or family memebers I'd delete them out of my addressbook. It's not *my* responsibility to maintain *their* spam filter. It's offloading work to the wrong people (the wrong people being me and, obviously, Lan. :) )
Now herein lies a problem with Spam. Everyone thinks it's not their responsibility, that it belongs to someone else. If you want to use e-mail, then you, and me, and everyone else should do our part to keep the pricks from taking advantage of it.
This seems to be the general mentality of many folks regarding many areas of not only technology, but every part of life in general. "It's not my responsibility, I don't want to deal with it, let someone else fix it and take care of it. Please, spoon feed me."
I have been planning to add ASK (Active Spam Killer) to my mail server for some time. It allows for white lists, which of course I would implement - adding all my friends, family, mailing lists, etc. to it. It's possible I could miss a couple people, or new friends or family might send me an e-mail that may not be in the list. IMHEO, if it's too damned hard for them to click "reply" when the system asks for confirmation, then I don't need their e-mail. Not adding a mailing list address to the white list would be a dumb thing to do and could impact all on the mailing list.
PGA -- Paul G. Allen, BSIT/SE Owner, Sr. Engineer Random Logic Consulting http://www.randomlogic.com -- KPLUG-List@kernel-panic.org http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
