On Wed, 03 Sep 2008 23:00:40 -0700, Paul G. Allen
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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.
I'm fine with being responsible for my own spam, but I don't understand
why I should be responsible to help maintain everyone else's spam lists.
This kind of thing won't really work unless everyone with an E-mail
address does it and I just don't see it. It'll get through, just like
regular junk mail. And we'll just learn to throw it away when it gets here
rather than call 15 advertisers every month to ask them to stop.
-Matt
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