Hello List, Two of my recent threads were declared Dead Horses for cause. In at least one of them, I displayed some impatience, which is my achilles heel in the Autumn of my years.
Although I had unsubscribed this list and had my photo removed from the gallery, I feel I owe both Marck and Allie, this public statement. Do not reply if for my sake: I won't see it and am un-subscribing straightaway after posting this. First: Marck, Allie, and other maintainers/moderators of this list do so out of a dedication none of us could afford to purchase--if it was for sale, which it is not. Second, I think the success of TB! is very much enhanced by their collective knowledge and presence. Third, unlike them, I am just a visiting goon and am not obliged to dilute my messages with tact although civility is paramount. The essential message of my earlier (now dead) threads was this: External spam-filtering software of *all* kinds, mere offers a challenge to the designers of lucrative spam programs to thwart it--and I am confident they will, given very little time. There is only one way to stop Spam and that is to essentially make your e-mail address an "unlisted" address. You can do that painfully effectively with TB!, which I love dearly. I tried in my earlier messages to describe the process I use (admittedly controversial and a bitter pill for some). My process is absolutely deadly accurate. Believe it. Your "unlisted" telephone number is vulnerable to random computer-dialing. You know that. You know when you pick-it up and there's silence, that a computer has dialed it, and a person will soon come on the phone to sell you something (having caught a fish). You also know (here in the States, at least), you can pay US$7/mo or some such to have those calls arrested via triggering a "special" ring sequence. This is an outrage. My method unlists your e-mail, period and forever. TB! will allow you to decide how to handle mail from unknown addresses. Using TB!'s wonderfully adept Perl filtering routines, you can even decide whether you even want to see those messages during a break-in period. I offended some in my replies to earlier posts here. For that, I sincerely apologize. I have a wish-list for TB! and high atop it is the ability to "save" my filters for transport to other accounts. If it exists, I have yet to discover it. So long, list. I'm too old to arm-wrestle or play King-of-the-mountain. Furthermore, I think this rampant "positioning" within forums, both here and elsewhere, is uncalled-for. If anyone here thinks I am guilty of that, I apologize. We should each be able to express our opinions without being personally insulted or slapped around by those with opposing views Learn TB! Promote TB! Support TB! I have used many others but TB! was my final -mail client purchase. One more thing. It is said that the hyphen (-) is something added when two-words are newly married. I think it's time to remove the hyphen from the word e-mail, to become "email," with the uppercase "E" only if it begins a sentence. So long, folks. May your emailbox be spam-free, and may you join with those who think the 10x bloat of HTML mail is an un-educated and un-caring waste of infrastructure resources. It is also the guise of most Spam. ;-) I remind you not to reply for my eyes--I have un-subscribed this list. -- Warm regards, Mike ________________________________________________ Current version is 1.62r | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
