On Thu, Jun 03, 1999 at 09:27:15AM +1000, Craig Sanders wrote: > On Wed, Jun 02, 1999 at 03:09:22PM -0400, Branden Robinson wrote: > > [i know this is off-topic, but i can't let your unwarranted attack go > unanswered. if you want the quick version of this message it can be > summed up in the phrase "Get a clue!". if you want the long version, > read on] I was incorrect about one thing; Phil set that up on his own box, so it doesn't really affect anyone else. My piss and venom is reserved for ISPs who do this, especially those who don't tell their users they do this, or don't let their users opt out of the service. So Phil and Dale will have to negotiate about how they are to communicate with each other, and it looks like they are doing that. I still think that filtering based on rules like the RBL, MAPS, DUL, ORBS and the like use is wrong in almost all its applications. I disagree with it on a fundamental, philosophical level, except when it is effectively implemented only on a per-mailbox basis (and most people in the world with email accounts don't run their own MTA). Hate me, call me a clueless idiot, think of me as another Steve Lamb all you like. I've never sent a piece of unsolicited commercial email in my life, and yet my mails get thrown away by some ISP's because of where they originate. That is unjust. And I will never stop complaining about it until it is no longer a problem for responsible net citizens. You can personally killfile me for any reason you want. I do not recognize your right to killfile me in the mailboxes of other people without their knowledge or consent. And I am opposed to tools that make it easy for lazy sysadmins to do that. -- G. Branden Robinson | The only way to get rid of a temptation Debian GNU/Linux | is to yield to it. branden@ecn.purdue.edu | -- Oscar Wilde cartoon.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ |
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