Re: Proposed change for subscriptions...

["s. keeling" <keeling@spots.ab.ca>]

Incoming from Steve Lamb:
> Kent West said:
> > I've been subscribed for several years, and have not felt abused by the
> > list managers.
> 
>     "He doesn't abuse me, I needed to be punished!"  I used it to convey the
> fact that they are fully capable of closing a hole that spammers use to
> abuse the list to vector spam into the subscribers mailbox but choose
> not to.  If that doesn't fall under abuse of the subscribers then what
> does it fall under in your opinion?

Your solution is to knuckle under to the spammers, closing off the
lines of communication between Debian Users?

Spam is like Windows viruses.  You can filter, firewall, proxy, and
still they'll get in by walking in off the street.

Shutting down legitimate lines of communication because some jerks use
them too is just plain dumb.


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