Re: Look at these update from M$ Corporation.
On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 08:13:25PM +0100, Richard Lyons wrote:
> On Friday 01 August 2003 18:55, David Fokkema wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 07:48:36AM -0500, John Hasler wrote:
> [...]
> > > And I can guarantee you that I will never respond to
> > > "challenges".
> >
> > Why?
> >
> > If you send mail to a list and you get a challenge, sure, ignore
> > it. If a user of the mailbox-sentry-program or tmda
> > (tmda.sourceforge.net) fails to place a mailing list on his
> > personal whitelist he's just being careless or stupid. (Or, he
> > might be still figuring out his setup and might be neither.)
> >
> > If you send mail directly to a person, off-list, in private, why
> > not respond to his challenge? [...]
>
> Yes. Good questions.
>
> The trouble is, while we who love the internet and have been using it
> for years all feel to a greater or lesser degree outraged by the
> crass nastiness of most spam, we have somehow become divided into
> warring factions fighting for the peak of the moral high ground. Or
> fighting for what we see as the most practical response. I am
> convinced there is room for some compromise, for an acceptance by the
> C-R proponents that filtering will continue to have a place, and a
> corresponding acceptance by filterers that C-R can be a powerful
> force for good. If each side looks more favourably on the other's
> work, we might just begin to invent an effective response that will
> pre-empt the drive by some of TPTB to grab more power by stepping in
> to regulate this too. The politicians are the real enemy.
Well, I'm not really sure about your final statement, but I totally
agree with the rest.
> This is really way OT here, but I for one would be happy to discuss it
> elsewhere.
It is, indeed. But where?
David
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