I was kind of feeling sorry about including you as a CC in the last post--partial oversight, partial personal policy (I never quite know how to deal with tertiary CCs: I generally detest people who adulterate a message they're replying to, but I also think that responsibility for replies stops about third-hand). This eases my conscience somewhat: Sending bills and dunning letters IAW a pre-existing policy sounds like it fits your "kill the root, not the offspring" ethos... So are you a part of the problem in this case or willing to be part of the solution?
On Fri, 22 Dec 2000, Ben Collins wrote: > On Sat, Dec 23, 2000 at 02:21:46AM +0100, Robert van der Meulen wrote: > > Quoting Ben Collins ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > BTW, I'm on a 28.8, and I get over 1000 emails a day from all the lists I > > > am sub'd to. So I do see a lot of spam, even beyond Debian's lists. If I > > > can ignore it, so can everyone else, IMNHO. > > Ignoring spam has made the internet the spam-ridden place it is right now. > > As long as people do not do anything about it, spam will be as commonplace > > and as 'ignorable' as spam by snailmail. > > I do not like that, and lots of people don't. Apart from the annoyances, > > spammers almost regularly clobber up mailservers, network links, and > > are being _very_ intrusive. > > Spam is not an ignorable problem, and every spam-account i can manage to get > > killed, will get killed. > > If your opinion is that we shouldn't actively try to bring down the spam to > > a minimum, and just delete it - that's your opinion, but definately not > > mine, and not a lot of others' too ;) > > My opinion is that trying to block spam is a losing battle. Trying to > attack it at it's roots by closing open relays, filing suit on people > breaking the law, etc..is the right thing. > > It's like arresting drug users, as opposed to arresting the drug > smugglers. You should kill the root, not the offspring. > > Ben > > -- Pardon me, but you have obviously mistaken me for someone who gives a damn. email [EMAIL PROTECTED]
