> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Aug 1 02:29:38 2003 > > > On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 01:36:14AM -0500, Jesse Meyer wrote: > > On Thu, 31 Jul 2003, Alan Connor wrote: > > > Spam is UCE (unsolicited commercial email) and stopping it can only > > > be done with a Challenge-Response mail program, such as the one I > > > put together. There isn't ANY other approach that works. > > > > Spam tends to be an automated, bulk emailing of addresses, but not all > > automated, bulk emailing of addresses are spam. > > Yup. For example, I can guarantee you that the people operating the > Debian bug tracking system don't always bother to respond to > "challenges". If people don't want BTS mail, that's their problem; we > don't have time to babysit that sort of thing. > > -- > Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
It's getting late :-) I should have added that debian.org is on my pass list. The domain name. Anyone mailing me from any address there wouldn't even know I was running a C-R system. I have in fact been mailed several times by various folks at bugs.debian.org, Rob McQueen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> among them. Alan -- For Linux/Bash users: Eliminate spam with the Mailbox-Sentry-Program. See: http://tinyurl.com/inpd for the scripts and docs. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]