Katipo wrote:
Doofus wrote:
Well, whilst I appreciate we can filter at our end with procmail or
delete directly from our imap servers (although not from this here
windows box), my point is that I can't see any reason for "paypal" or
"ebay" coming up at all in message headers or bodies on a debian
linux discussion group, and so why not ditch the lot at source? I
also concede that it's not my place to say what is and isn't
filtered, and I got more or less the response I expected.
Stop acting like a doofus.
The general outlook of the open source software movement is that the
enduser makes the decision about what they want to see, and what they
don't.
If *you* don't want to receive something, *you* filter it out.
Debian has the software to facilitate this.
Apparently some on this list adhere to a rationale that they wish to
continue to receive mail that includes the criterion.
They have a right to do so.
What you see as spam, they do not.
They have the right to self determination, as you do.
By all means, exercise this on your own behalf, but please don't
presume to set standards for others to adhere to.
It's embarrassing to watch.
Oh dear, more personal attacks in a discussion group. I'm pressed to
think of a more insidious form of unsolicited mail than that sent only
in an effort to leech the online financial account details of the
unsuspecting. It has no place on a public mailling list and is worse
than pure advertising. Of course that's just my opinion and I welcome
any argument to the contrary, but I don't consider your embarrassment a
valid argument. Maybe you should seek help.
From the Debian pages:
"The sending of any kind of unsolicited bulk email to any of the Debian
lists is prohibited. Failure to follow this rule may result in the
senders of such messages being blocked from posting on lists and/or
reported to the relevant authorities.
The Debian Listmasters do their best to stop as many such emails as
possible from reaching the lists. On a typical day, over 40,000 such
messages are blocked."
40,000 messages a day that some folks around here may have wanted to
read. Have put your complaint in?
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