[Mailman-Developers] Opening up a few can o' worms here...

[Jerry Stratton]

Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
>So what are you going to do?
>
>Outlaw Outlook?
>
>:-)
>

Don't laugh--one of the filters we provide our users is "it says it 
came from Outlook" and "it has an attachment". Users can choose that 
if both of those conditions are met, the message is bounced back to 
the sender with an explanation that they don't accept Outlook mail 
that contains attachments!


John Baxter wrote:
>Plus, I fear the "new breed" spammers (the ones who actually think their
>advertising is useful and welcome and only sent to opt-in lists, although
>they buy the lists from guys who [figuratively] sell them from under a
>trenchcoat at the entrance to a dark alley) will cause legislation to be
>passed forbidding filtering at the mail server level.  It nearly happened
>last time around.

I don't understand why people can't look at history. Get the 
government involved in spam legislation, and eventually businesses 
will convince the government to require us to receive spam.

Jerry
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