On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 12:22:21PM -0500,
Dave Sill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Bruno Wolff III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >I have the same problem and have been trying to educate my relatives.
>
> What education do people sending you cards need? Apparently I need it,
> too.
That I don't read email under windows. I don't want to waste bandwidth
and diskspace on images, especially animated ones. I am currently not even
using X on the machine that I use for email, so viewing images is a bit of
a problem.
I don't want the card companies collecting and reselling my address. While
it isn't secret, the kind of people a greeting card company is likely to
sell it to, aren't the kind of people I want using it.
>
> >In the mean time I am using the following rules for tcpserver:
> ># Blue Mountain greeting card goes through bmarts
> >209.247.132.86-138:deny
> >209.247.133.7-8:deny
> >
> >This appears to have blocked at least one message from a relative
> >successfully. I don't know who else uses bmarts, so this may block
> >other people than Blue Mountain.
>
> bmarts is, presumably, Blue Mountain Arts.
>
> Do you block other card services, or is Blue Mountain the only one
> that's evil?
They are the only one I seem to have gotten sent cards by. If there was an
RBL style list of greeting card servers, I would use it.
>
> Do you reject snail mail containing greeting cards?
Snail mail cards don't have a lot of extra negative impact on my end when they
have pictures added to them as well as text.
>
> Do you block calls from friends and relatives on holidays and
> birthdays?
No, but I often give telemarkers a hard time.
>
> I just don't get it...
>
> -Dave
