[spambayes-dev] Regarding Whitelisting

[Meyer, Tony]

> Something every email user secretly knows, but doesn't want 
> to believe, is that email is an inappropriate medium for 
> truly important communication.  So it goes.

Absolutely.  I'm not sure that every mail does know this, but they
should (heh - they teach this in the business courses here).  Email
isn't reliable, even if you take all the filters out.  There's some
weird problem at the moment where email between me and a friend who
works about 20 minutes drives from here takes about 4 days to be
delivered.  Sure, this is just anecdotal, and not all that common, but
it does happen.  I read an article about mail that was delayed *months*
because someone mucked up a server.

Let's face it - truly important communication should be face-to-face.
At the very least it should involve some sort of receipt (even if just
"here is the coffee you wanted"  "thanks").  I wouldn't trust regular
old postal mail for anything important either; I've had things lost far
too many times.

=Tony Meyer