Re: networksorcery.com spam

2001-07-24 Thread Paul Ebersman
dee3 clearly 99.9% of spam is worse than the networksorcery stuff. I dee3 suggest that stopping the worst of the spam should be higher dee3 priority. dcrocker an excellent goal. how can we objectively differentiate the dcrocker one from the other? Fleming Simply moving away from the IPv4

Re: networksorcery.com spam

2001-07-23 Thread Dave Crocker
At 10:07 AM 7/22/2001, Donald E. Eastlake 3rd wrote: clearly 99.9% of spam is worse than the networksorcery stuff. I suggest that stopping the worst of the spam should be higher priority. an excellent goal. how can we objectively differentiate the one from the other? d/ -- Dave

Re: networksorcery.com spam

2001-07-23 Thread Jim Fleming
- Original Message - From: Dave Crocker [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Donald E. Eastlake 3rd [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 23, 2001 5:04 PM Subject: Re: networksorcery.com spam At 10:07 AM 7/22/2001, Donald E. Eastlake 3rd wrote: clearly 99.9% of spam is worse

Re: networksorcery.com spam

2001-07-22 Thread Donald E. Eastlake 3rd
I'm with Marshall here. Much as it would be nice if everything was black and white (or one and zero), that's not the way the real world of human communications is. The edge of the sharpest, straightest razor blabe looks like a mountain range under a microscope. I can understand why someone would

Re: networksorcery.com spam

2001-07-22 Thread Jim Fleming
- Original Message - From: Bob Braden [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, July 22, 2001 4:12 PM Subject: Re: networksorcery.com spam * * Now if I could just automagically create the content... hmmm

Re: networksorcery.com spam

2001-07-22 Thread Dave Crocker
At 07:20 PM 7/20/2001, Marshall T. Rose wrote: hi. we're not talking about a mail list so the issue of opt-in/out is meaningless. the fact that addressees are derived incrementally, rather than causing a mass mailing strikes me as a minor point. The mass aspects of spam are irritating, but

Re: networksorcery.com spam

2001-07-22 Thread Vernon Schryver
From: Dave Crocker [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... the fact that addressees are derived incrementally, rather than causing a mass mailing strikes me as a minor point. The mass aspects of spam are irritating, but not what causes the bulk of public concern. Spam is most typically defined as

Re: networksorcery.com spam

2001-07-21 Thread Jose Manuel Arronte Garcia
Under the current description that I have seen, this email is in fact SPAM because you are not expecting it. Oh! Shoot! so I receive LOTS of SPAM daily! Saludos. Regards.. _ José Manuel Arronte García Supervisor de Soporte Técnico Helpdesk Meg@Red

Re: networksorcery.com spam

2001-07-20 Thread Marshall T. Rose
Message - From: Vernon Schryver [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 20, 2001 11:02 Subject: Re: networksorcery.com spam From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve Conner) Hi folks, I guess it is time to come out of the shadows. As many of you know, Network Sorcery maintains

Re: networksorcery.com spam

2001-07-20 Thread Michael Mealling
On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 03:06:53PM -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote: At 09:48 AM 7/20/2001 -0700, Steve Conner wrote: It would certainly make my life easier if the IETF would provide a directory that the authors could update themselves. I have volunteered in the past to share this info with

Re: networksorcery.com spam

2001-07-20 Thread Vernon Schryver
From: Marshall T. Rose [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... vern - as much as i appreciate the modern dictum that everyone is a villain, i don't think it would kill you every now and then to look for a benign explanation to things. Spam is not about villainy, fraud, or public services. It is only about

Re: networksorcery.com spam

2001-07-20 Thread Michael Mealling
On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 02:16:46PM -0600, Vernon Schryver wrote: From: Marshall T. Rose [EMAIL PROTECTED] What would you say if many of the many third party RFC repositories started sending you periodic reminders to update your biographical and bibliographical entries? So far it seems that

Re: networksorcery.com spam

2001-07-20 Thread Marshall T. Rose
[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 20, 2001 13:16 Subject: Re: networksorcery.com spam From: Marshall T. Rose [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... vern - as much as i appreciate the modern dictum that everyone is a villain, i don't think it would kill you every now and then to look

Re: networksorcery.com spam

2001-07-20 Thread Gary E. Miller
Yo mtr! I believe that this mail list is opt-in and the bulk mail in question was opt-out. If you can not see the difference then we have big problems. I spend a lot of time as postmaster for a lot of domains digging out from under spam. It is NOT a mole hill to me or a lot of other folks on

Re: networksorcery.com spam (fwd)

2001-07-20 Thread Gary E. Miller
PROTECTED] Tel:+1(541)382-8588 Fax: +1(541)382-8676 -- Forwarded message -- Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 14:43:24 -0700 From: Marshall Rose [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Gary E. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: networksorcery.com spam This is an automated reply from Marshall Rose's personal

Re: networksorcery.com spam

2001-07-20 Thread Marshall T. Rose
Yo mtr! I believe that this mail list is opt-in and the bulk mail in question was opt-out. If you can not see the difference then we have big problems. I spend a lot of time as postmaster for a lot of domains digging out from under spam. It is NOT a mole hill to me or a lot of other

Re: networksorcery.com spam

2001-07-20 Thread Vernon Schryver
From: Marshall T. Rose [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... there is only one thing that calling this spam achieves -- it reduces the impact of the term spam. when a word means all things, it means nothing. let's keep the powder dry for real spam, shall we? What is real spam? How can I tell when I

Re: networksorcery.com spam

2001-07-20 Thread TRAICOVN (NW)
*Steps out on proverbial limb* Under the current description that I have seen, this email is in fact SPAM because you are not expecting it. I personally did not receive this message, and have been on the IETF list for awhile, without participating much. Guess you could call me a lurker...

RE: networksorcery.com spam

2001-07-20 Thread Christian Huitema
Under the current description that I have seen, this email is in fact SPAM because you are not expecting it. Oh my, have we come a long way. I receive mail that I am not expecting everyday, and I would definitely not qualify all of that as spam. Lighten up! What do you want, a system in which

networksorcery.com spam

2001-07-19 Thread Vernon Schryver
I think that networksorcery.com is sending a bulk message to RFC authors soliciting updates for their version of a Who's Who. When I asked why their message was not unsolicited bulk mail or spam they said that the info request was sent to [me] and only [me]. Golly gee. Let me try to think if