On Wed, 6 Aug 2003 09:10:03 -0700, Alan Connor <alanc@eskimo.com> wrote: > I hate to have to do this, but I own an apology to Paul Johnson. > > (Having received a mail from a list member with an example of a false > CR. Talk about FAST.) For all that you do in trying to fight the spam problem, I find it ironic that you yourself are contributing to the problem through your mail headers. You're grossly violating your own netiquette that you previously preached to us regarding PGP/GPG signatures. alanc@eskimo.com is not a valid email address. I have verified by checking with the eskimo.com mx server, fingering that username and checking if you have a home directory on eskimo.com's shell. eskimo.com is, however, a valid site whose mx is processing all the mail, including spam from harvesters, and then bouncing them. By using an invalid email address in your headers with a valid domain, the site's mx is picking up the weight of spam, even though you are not. As a paying customer of eskimo.com, I feel that you should carefully reconsider how you post to these mailing lists. Robert Dinse at eskimo has a hell of a time fighting spam, as any admin at any site, and I do not appreciate you causing him to receive more spam which the mx has to bounce. (normally I would care less, but I feel more inclined to care in a situation like this.) -- Scott Christopher Linnenbringer <sl@eskimo.com> http://www.eskimo.com/~sl/info.txt <sl@moslug.org>
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