> "Greg" == Greg A Woods <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[Sorry for `spamming' the whole list, but I really want this to be on
the public record:]
Greg> Meanwhile if someone tries to post a legitimate message from
Greg> a blocked site (eg. an open relay) then in reality none of
Greg>
On Sat, Apr 07, 2001 at 09:43:29PM -0400, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> The only *fair* thing to do is to block all e-mail from all known and
> proven open relays and spam sources. *IFF* this ever causes any
Except that there are multiple definitions of "proven open relays" and
valid sites get put onto
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Greg A. Woods) writes:
> That's simply not true at all. All even half-decent MLMs have the
> ability to allow posting to explicit addressees without also sending
> posts to those addresses.
Isn't this functionality normally limited to list administrators ?
These poor guys mig
%% [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Greg A. Woods) writes:
gaw> That's simply not true at all. All even half-decent MLMs have the
gaw> ability to allow posting to explicit addressees without also sending
gaw> posts to those addresses.
That may be true, but I don't run into many "half-decent MLMs" then.
> The only *fair* thing to do is to block all e-mail from all known and
> proven open relays and spam sources. *IFF* this ever causes any
> legitimate messages to be blocked then the only effect will be positive
> in that the user who gets the bounce will learn that his site is well
> known as a
[ On , April 7, 2001 at 19:52:01 (-0400), Paul D. Smith wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: Spam, Bacon, Eggs & Spam (was: Re: yada $1.4M yada)
>
> I find subscriber-only lists annoying and elitist, and I don't subscribe
> to them.
That's too bad. With most modern MLM software the
Russ Allbery wrote:
>
> Paul D Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Savannah doesn't support forums; the site explicitly says they're not
> > needed since we have mailing lists.
>
> > I agree with them: web-based forums suck compared to mailing lists. I
> > wish more SourceForge groups woul
[ On Saturday, April 7, 2001 at 20:43:07 (+0200), Tim Van Holder wrote: ]
> Subject: Spam, Bacon, Eggs & Spam (was: Re: yada $1.4M yada)
>
> I agree with the FSF on this one - better let through 10 spams than block
> 1 important mail; similar to your argument, most everyone on gnu.org
> mailing li
Paul D Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Savannah doesn't support forums; the site explicitly says they're not
> needed since we have mailing lists.
> I agree with them: web-based forums suck compared to mailing lists. I
> wish more SourceForge groups would use mailing lists instead of forums
%% "Tim Van Holder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> In fact I'd hope most such new lists will be set up so that only
>> subscribers may post freely to them.
I find subscriber-only lists annoying and elitist, and I don't subscribe
to them.
My company explicitly rewrites all my email so that i
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