Re: Boost Windows Reliability!!!!!
> On Sat, Dec 23, 2000 at 02:21:46AM +0100, Robert van der Meulen wrote:
> > Quoting Ben Collins (bcollins@debian.org):
> > > BTW, I'm on a 28.8, and I get over 1000 emails a day from all the lists I
> > > am sub'd to. So I do see a lot of spam, even beyond Debian's lists. If I
> > > can ignore it, so can everyone else, IMNHO.
I can ignore it, too. It was my fault for misreading; I stand corrected.
> > Ignoring spam has made the internet the spam-ridden place it is right now.
> > As long as people do not do anything about it, spam will be as commonplace
> > and as 'ignorable' as spam by snailmail.
> > I do not like that, and lots of people don't. Apart from the annoyances,
> > spammers almost regularly clobber up mailservers, network links, and
> > are being _very_ intrusive.
> > Spam is not an ignorable problem, and every spam-account i can manage to get
> > killed, will get killed.
> > If your opinion is that we shouldn't actively try to bring down the spam to
> > a minimum, and just delete it - that's your opinion, but definately not
> > mine, and not a lot of others' too ;)
>
> My opinion is that trying to block spam is a losing battle. Trying to
> attack it at it's roots by closing open relays, filing suit on people
> breaking the law, etc..is the right thing.
>
> It's like arresting drug users, as opposed to arresting the drug
> smugglers. You should kill the root, not the offspring.
Which isn't to say you leave the offspring alone. You slay them, too. You
have to do both - not just one or the other. EOT for me.
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