On Sat, 06 Sep 2003 11:40:58 -0600 Andrew Mathews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Collins Richey wrote: > | On 06 Sep 2003 07:52:26 -0400 > | burns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | > | > |>These people are operating on vigilante principles... they don't > |care.>If they can eliminate 80% of spam by blackholing 15% of the > |genuine>innocent mail users, they are happy. It's a war and they > |don't care>who gets hurt - they consider it justifiable collateral > |damage.> > |>The scary thing is no-one voted for these guys, they weren't > |appointed>by any government agency and they aren't accountable to > |anyone. These>are just people who are feeding their ego and > |power-tripping on how>they are 'saving the world.' > |>-- > | > | > | And you wonder why some organizations have an aversion to open > | source. These cowboys are no better than the cows they are trying to > | herd. > | > > And the alternative is? They have to fight an ever escalating battle > with the spammers, who, by the way, don't seem to give a shit about > "innocent" users either. They're fighting fire with fire, and > unfortunately, some people are caught in the middle. But if you're > blaming the Sysadmins or DNSBL's for your woes, you're blaming the > wrong people. If the friggin' spammers weren't being the abusive > assholes that they are, NONE of this would be necessary. It's like > saying "Don't back that fire truck over my flower bed! I'd rather let > the fire burn down my house!" Or a dictum from a CEO who has *no* > concept of what they demand: Monday: "Turn off those filters! I can't > get mail from Hotmail!" Tuesday: "Why didn't you fix the spam problem? > Are you ignorant?" Wednesday: "I can't get mail from Hotmail again!" > Thursday: "Why do I have 100 spam messages again?" > Friday: "You're incompetent, so I'm firing you." > Yes, it is a no win situation. My previous employer allowed no mail retrieval from the corporate network accept via the corporate Outlook system. Inconvenient for a few, but it worked. It still failed to protect them from the soBig virus <grin>. What all of us are describing is a more insidious thing. Yes, there is lots of spam, but inventive mail filters can be devised to filter much of it to/dev/null. I'm only interested in the little guy: me. My computer is not infected with anything, and I resent it when one of the big guys (you in this case, or anyone who subscribes to the kill anything in a broad range theory) decides to make my life difficult because I have a superficial resemblance (i.e. similar ip address) to someone who happens to be a bad guy. -- Collins Richey - Denver Area if you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for. _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
