Hi, bytevolc...@safe-mail.net wrote: > Just a tip from an outsider.
Those are always more than welcome :) > I would suggest you show a little sympathy for those who are getting > spammed by useless Nigerian scammers, cryptovirus authors, and the > like, claiming to be some kind of "Head of Financial Business > Management Department Business Managing Director" or some other sort of > made up title. Yeah, that's why I normally use a maildir w/ a notification filter -- I don't get alterted if the message contains certain terms. And at the end of the day, it's easy to get rid of such messages using something along the lines of 'fgrep | cut | xargs rm'. Having to go through them with mail(1) must be a real horror... > It would do you a lot better than whinging over a generic piece of text > that wasn't directed specifically towards you anyway, and then calling > people names, That's your misconception, right there. I called the machine a jerkass, and whether its admin is or not remains to be seen (I sent him an apology, just in case he indeed took it personally, but I'm still awaiting a potential answer). > then whinging when your behaviour gets called out. Lesson: never configure a public machine to misbehave. People might be trying to get work done and take offense if they're stopped in that rude manner (just a huge delay, 'permission denied' and closing the connection would've IMO certainly sufficed). Look at the uproar it created here... > If I received the same piece of text, the first thought would be that > at least the OpenBSD mailing list maintainer thinks the same way as I > do about spammers. That they should die in hell, or worse? Sure I agree! But not at the expense of breaking e-mail in any manner. Then the forces of evil just win. > I even had a recent spammer impersonate Theo de > Raadt! That doesn't sound like a spammer to me, that sounds personal. Was it in bulk? > This is why the OLPC rubbish that went on about a decade ago did not > sit well with me. 'cause every child might be a potential suicide bo^W^Wspammer? :X Though I agree w/ you that it's rubbish. --schaafuit.