Keith Moore wrote:
> I beg to differ. People install firewalls to filter their own incoming
> and/or outgoing traffic.
D'oh. I thought firewalls where also used to filter traffic
one did *not* ask for. Stuff that wasn't apriori declared part of
one's community of interest. Seemed a reasonable analogy.
[..]
> Those who are complaining about spam on this list have the ability to
> filter their own incoming traffic.
Kinda, sorta. No reason not to propose schemes that operate closer
to the source, even by one hop.
> What they're wanting is for someone
> else to filter their traffic for them,
Yup.
> and for everyone else on the list
> also,
Right again.
> using poorly-chosen filtering criteria on which there's no consensus.
It is a fragile universe one inhabits where asking people to subscribe
to the community of interest before posting is equated to censorship.
If that's what you mean by "poorly-chosen" then... oh well. Thread
fizzles to an end.
cheers,
gja
