On Jul 16, 2002 at 22:44, Chuq Von Rospach wrote:
On 7/16/02 9:49 PM, "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@baylink.com> wrote:
the policies up. Unless, of course, your policy is "you're screwed if you post to my list, and good luck stopping the spammers". Which is, effectively, what "make the owner of the mailbox handle it" does as a policy. Although I doubt you'd phrase it quite that way...
I wouldn't, but that would be my policy, yes. OTOH, no one pays me to run mailing lists.
Again, it's the same thing: have the mechanism (I'm not even sure *which* mechanism(s) you're talking about now), let $foo decide the policy, where $foo iterates over the list of users.
Of course, that causes one person's miscalculation to be another person's (times n) headache. Networks are like that.
But I'm not bitter. Naw. Not at all.
I see no "bitter" here.
Heh. Wanna guarantee messages get bounced all over the place? Just use the "V" word in an email. You know which one I mean. You'll set off alarms all
"virus"? Something else? VD? What?
over the universe. It's more fun than running through a parking lot seeing
Oooh, cool!
I love to say "if all you have his a hammer, everything is a nail". In this case, email is our hammer, and mail lists aren't always appropriate for hammering, but have you seen what those idiots did to our screwdriver? I ain't picking that up, not without tongs and a blowtorch.
But now they want to borrow the hammer, too.
(Insert Picard's speech about drawing the line here.)
My sister runs a page that's always in the top 3 on Google in her *One* piece of spam. I am amazed.
So am I. I mean, *one*?
-- Satya. <URL:http://satya.virtualave.net/> Could you continue your petty bickering ? I find it most intriguing.