Re: Every spam is sacred
On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 03:20:54PM +0200, Mathieu Roy wrote:
> Christian Surchi <csurchi@debian.org> a tapot? :
> > is there a rule for us about spam? should we accept mail from all
> > over the world, even if it's surely spam? And BTW we were talking
> > about *tagging* mail from IPs in RBLs.
>
> You are wrong.
>
> Please re-read Santiago Villa mail.
Please re-read Santiago's *first* mail in this thread.
> "Hmm, SPEWS is well known for blocking innocent people. Their
> idea is that causing some collateral damage to innocent users
> when their ISP host spammers will cause those people to choose
> another ISP which does not host spammers. Only when the bad
> ISPs see this way they lose a lot of money they will stop
> hosting spammers. This is certainly an interesting idea to
> fight spammers [...] "
>
> This is clearly not about tagging, which is not "causing some
> collateral damage to innocent user" by "blocking innocent people".
>
> As my message was a direct reply to this one, this is what "we were
> talking about".
I think Santiago was talking in more general terms about SPEWS there,
not suggesting their approach as one for Debian.
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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