Ok, I agree with /dev/rob0 , this has gone way off topic for this list. All of us are free to handle spam as we decide to do it, if Dennis wants to block @yahoo.* @gmail.com @hotmail.com , that's his decision. In my case, the amount of spam I receive from these domains is minimal (and is catch by bayesian and/or IPBL and/or HELO filtering) , and thus: I have never considered to block these, also, I have customers whose address are on these domains, but: that's me, his history can be very different to mine, maybe he gets hundreds or thousands of spams from these domains a day!.
Dennis, yes *some* schools provide internal emails, others don't... sometimes because they can't afford giving the service, or because they just don't want to! either way, the reality is that you can't force the world into doing what you want .... the university where I studied decided to move their mail from an internal server to gmail!!!, I, of course, let them know that I considered it a bad idea, but they still decided to do it.... I have seen sites blocking whole countries, because they don't care about receiving mail from these countries (and they started to get spam from there)... I'm open to global market, and blocking mail from any country would not make sense for me, but for other people it is a part of their spam solution. Other people want to spend a lot of money on commercial spam solutions: they are free to do it!, I mean, it is not my money they are spending, it is theirs! as long as it works: good for them! (there is also people paying others to maintain their open source-based anti-spam system, and that's also good). So, people, lets just agree on something: lets respect what everyone does, and lets not label anyone for what they decide to do, we can give our opinion in a respectful way, and let the other person think about it, then he/she can decide to keep doing what he/she does, or maybe change the way of doing things.... but lets respect each other, I think that's important. Sincerely, Ildefonso Camargo On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 4:18 PM, Dennis Clarke <dcla...@blastwave.org> wrote: > >> On 17/11/2011 14:39, Dennis Clarke wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Today I had an unhappy unix student try to submit an assignment .. >>> >>> tell your students to use the email address provided by the school on >>> the >>> school domain. Also, as a policy, I blacklist all yahoo, gmail, hotmail >>> junk and life is much better at the office. >>> >>> If someone does not have a valid email address at a reasonable domain >>> then >>> we don't want to hear from them anyways. >> >> Yes, but you're not selling anything or providing any kind of public >> service. > > Doing both, quite well and quite a while now. Regardless, I would think > that the school would provide email service, web based interface of some > sort or similar, which would any issues of the delivery of a paper. > > As for yahoo, hotmail and other cesspools, I block them, and life and > revenue goes on just fine. > > dc > > > > -- > -- > http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=vindex&search=0x1D936C72FA35B44B > +-------------------------+-----------------------------------+ > | Dennis Clarke | Solaris and Linux and Open Source | > | dcla...@blastwave.org | Respect for open standards. | > +-------------------------+-----------------------------------+ > >
