On Thu, 25 Sep 2003 17:17:33 +0000 (UTC), "Monique Y. Herman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In light of Jason's earlier comment that tmda is not just a C/R system > anymore, do any of you folks use it for non-C/R purposes? I use TMDA in both C/R and non-C/R ways for various accounts. I have some accounts that are for automated mailings only and I use TMDA to respond with a polite, informative bounce message to all other senders. I use C/R on my account, my wife's account, and a roommate's account. We get a lot of mail from newby morons (No, no one on this list! I'm talking about fans of our websites.) and I have noticed mail in my pending directory sometimes from these neophytes which goes unconfirmed. Each time I've found one of these, I've seen that the content is so poorly written and without other merit that I wouldn't bother replying anyhow. I don't want to come off as an arrogant prick (well, not any more-so than I am), but I'm a very busy person. I've whitelisted the non-tech-savvy people in my family, so apart from them I feel pretty darn good about my If-you-can't-figure-out-how-to-reply-to-an-easy-to- read-confirmation-message-then-I-don't-care-about-what-you-could- possibly-be-trying-to-tell-me policy. As for using other spam filters or virus filters in conjunction with TMDA, I don't bother. Yes, I could probably save my server a little bandwidth by rejecting these connections quickly and by not sending them a confirmation message, but I'm just not convinced that the bandwidth I would save is signifigant. I suppose it could be if e-mail was my primary business, but it's not (my primary business). Besides, I would rather err on the safe side. TMDA is so damned effective that there is just no call (in my case) for risking any additional false positives. Gre7g. _____________________________________________ tmda-users mailing list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://tmda.net/lists/listinfo/tmda-users
