On Mon, 16 May 2005, Matt Fretwell wrote: > Dennis Peterson wrote: > > The world experience is that Windows drones on dialups or cable/dsl > > are a major source of spam/viruses. > That is coming back to the dynamic elitist viewpoint.
I agree with both of you, actually. In theory, of course, Matt is right. If you're doing everything properly, you shouldn't be punished. On the other hand, given a limited amount of time to mess with e-mail, blocking all dynamic traffic proves to be an incredibly effective, efficient, and accurate means of blocking spam. If you configure your error messages properly and have a decent exception policy, smart, competent people like Matt are going to be able to work around the system with a minimum of fuss while Dennis is still protected from those other 99.9% of users. A lot of idealism goes down the tubes when confronted with the real world, but there are compromises you can make that, while imperfect, get you to a place where everything functions reasonably. -jef _______________________________________________ http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html
