I'm glad you followed up on it. But why then, do they NEVER reply to the answers that people give them? That would be common sense.
As for conspiracy theories, I don't think you are the real jmason. Someone stole your identity. The real jmason is trapped in the trunk of a car on the way to mexico! :) > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2003 4:10 PM > To: 'Spamassassin-Talk (E-mail)' > Subject: Enough with the conspiracy theories! (was Re: [SAtalk] (no > subject)) > > > > Peter P. Benac said: > > > Ya'll need to realize that this crap is coming from the > very people Spam > > Assassin was designed to block - THE SPAMMER. > > Think people Spam Assassin doesn't just appear on a PC. It > needs to be > > installed. Perl needs to be installed, a Mail Transfer > Agent needs to be > > Installed and for it to work with the Outlook Client extra > software needs to > > be loaded. It is designed to run on the MAIL SERVER not > the Mail CLIENT. > > Listen folks -- you are all too conspiracy-minded here. > > Consider this situation: > > - newbie user A has a dialup account with "Big ISP X", and a website > that some local guy wrote for them, hosted at "Small Web Host Y". > > They don't know very much about how SMTP works; they just > occasionally > get mail about their shop/club/whatever the website is > about. They > probably have a mailto: link there, because that's what > websites are > supposed to do ;) > > This, of course, gets spammed. > > - Small Web Host Y installs SpamAssassin, 'cos they think > it'd be a nice > thing to do. *But* they never bother to inform their > users, change > the default report text, or make it that the users have to opt-in > to receive this; they just take the easy way and switch it on > globally, with the contact info pointing to > http://SpamAssassin.org/ . > (This is the big problem BTW.) > > - The user suddenly notices all their spam talks about SpamAssassin, > and -- being a newbie -- assumes SpamAssassin is sending it. > > - They go to the URL in the mail -- http://SpamAssassin.org/tag/ -- > this page tells them to ask their ISP. So they do, and the ISP > says "we don't run that" -- because the *web host*, not the ISP, > is running it, and they don't know anything about the web host > because their website was set up by some local guy, who took > care of that detail (they just get a yearly bill from internic > or whatever). > > - So they go looking for an email address to complain about > SpamAssassin. They can't find one (because there isn't > one on that > /tag page). > > - They go to the SpamAssassin FAQ. That does have an address -- > SpamAssassin-talk -- at the bottom of the page, for FAQ > updates. They > mail that address. > > - Everyone here gets all conspiracy-minded ;) > > The last few people who've mailed here, have fit this > profile. I know, > because I've followed up on it. > > Anyway, I've fixed the FAQ now to list my address instead of > SpamAssassin-talk. I'll do the same on the /tag page. > > --j. > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Etnus, makers of > TotalView, The best > thread debugger on the planet. Designed with thread debugging features > you've never dreamed of, try TotalView 6 free at www.etnus.com. > _______________________________________________ > Spamassassin-talk mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Etnus, makers of TotalView, The best thread debugger on the planet. Designed with thread debugging features you've never dreamed of, try TotalView 6 free at www.etnus.com. _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
