On Monday 10 March 2003 16:28, Robin Lynn Frank wrote: > On Monday 10 March 2003 12:23 pm, Jason R. Mastaler wrote: > > It also says: > > > > ``and it may cause some of your correspondents to just give up without > > confirming that they are human, effectively causing false positives.'' > > > > Those who have used TMDA for a period of time know this is a > > misconception, but even if it wasn't; I'm more comfortable with this > > than a classifier which accidentally trashes a message it "thinks" is > > spam. At least with TMDA, the sender has the choice whether or not to > > let his message be delivered to you. With a classifier, he will assume > > it has been delivered when it has not been, creating a communications > > rift. > > An amusing twist on this happened when I was snooping about on the spamcop > mail list. I asked why all this frothing at the mouth over how much spam > folks were getting when it was relatively easy to keep spam out with the > approach used by TMDA. I actually had one guy get enraged, saying he > wouldn't "jump thru hoops" just to send someone email. There are people out > there who would rather blacklist the innocent along with the guilty than > use something simple and effective. Even though several folks there said > they'd found it easy to just click on the reply button, but this guy > wouldn't budge. I guess he didn't like getting "plonked" either. ;-)
There will always be people who are opposed to change. They're going to have a hard life in this Internet Enabled World. Personally, I think TMDA and programs like it are the wave of the future. Our customers CONSTANTLY BEG us to do something about all of the spam in their inboxes (sometimes > 100 messages per day). TMDA is the answer to their problems. The people who don't like change will oppose TMDA, but until a better solution comes along I think it will only become more popular. There's a point you reach when you've just got to say: "You know what? One little confirmation e-mail is well worth me not having to sift through 100s of bogus emails every day in search of the 10 or 20 legitimate emails from my customers." Not to mention the fact that TMDA makes email safer for children. My 2 cents. -- Jesse Guardiani, Systems Administrator WingNET Internet Services, P.O. Box 2605 // Cleveland, TN 37320-2605 423-559-LINK (v) 423-559-5145 (f) http://www.wingnet.net We are actively looking for companies that do a lot of long distance faxing and want to cut their long distance bill by up to 50%. Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] for more info. _____________________________________________ tmda-users mailing list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://tmda.net/lists/listinfo/tmda-users
