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Re: completely inane AOL questions



On Sun, 17 Jul 2005 15:35:03 -0700, Paul Johnson wrote:

> On Saturday July 16 2005 12:37 pm, roach wrote:
>> On Saturday 16 July 2005 14:50, Nicos Gollan wrote:
>> <...>
>>
>> > Anyone else for blocking all mails to the list that have a "From"
>> > header ending in "@aol.com"?
>>
>> AOL has become quiet good at fighting spam coming from their
>> network, no need to punish them.
> 
> AOL is not good about fighting idiots coming from their network. 
> Maintaining an idiot-hostile internet is just as important, if not 
> more so.  Lusers perpetuate spam, AOL encourages lusers, therefor, 
> AOL encourages spam.
> 
>> Earlier this evening I was at an Internet Cafe and decided to read
>> my email. Bad move, reading list email without filters is only for
>> the masochistic. I couldn't see the content, for the spam. I had a
>> hard time knowing whether too hurl or rip my eyes out. :-(
> 
> Get your own mail server, reject spam at SMTP-time?

Let 'talk' a little bit about AOL, ok?  They do tend to attract the dimwits 
and dumbshits which isn't really their fault.  On the 'other hand', they
also have a reputation of tollerating those who use their service for 'not
so legit' purposes.  ie: SPAM  So, maybe some stern filtering of their
domain by major entities might just slap their rist hard enough to get
their attention.  Don't know for sure but, what the heck, I'd vote 'yes'
for that approach.

< personally i think AOL sucks donky d#$%s and i'd like to see them die and 
burn in hell.  Ain't gona happen so I don't lose any sleep over it.. >





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