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From: Christopher Faylor <cgf@redhat.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: spam
Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2001 19:51:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010722225212.E9168@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3B5B4C13.1080303@ece.gatech.edu>

On Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 05:56:35PM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote:
>In the past, cygwin used ORBS.  But now we can't.

We do use the ORBS replacements that have cropped up but they don't seem
to be as effective as ORBS.

>Thus the increase in spam.  However, I haven't noticed multiple spams
>from the same address (unless the multiples come VERY close together)
>-- so I assume that someone -- probably cgf -- is manually blocking
>each spammer.  Perhaps not.

Yep.  I block every spam I see.  In fact, if I see spam in binutils, I
block it there and in many other mailing lists, including cygwin.  So,
the cgf spam coverage should be pretty good.

However, when I am on vacation or away from the computer (a regrettably
rare event) you may see some spam flitting by.

I would suggest that the best response to spam is to send email to the
*proper* place, i.e.  the originating site.  Sending a "why doesn't
someone do something about this" response is just, as Chuck says, adding
to the annoyance.

The only thing that I hate more than spam itself is the responses to
spam.  It's like yelling at someone in the library because they were
talking too loudly.

cgf

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  reply	other threads:[~2001-07-22 19:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-07-22 13:47 spam Kurt Roeckx
2001-07-22 14:49 ` spam Jon Twoface
2001-07-22 14:56 ` spam Charles Wilson
2001-07-22 19:51   ` Christopher Faylor [this message]
2001-07-22 15:30 ` spam Tim Prince
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-04-29 11:52 SPAM Keen Wayne A Contr AFRL/MNGG
2002-04-29  7:05 Spam Jacob Vennervald Madsen
2002-04-29  8:33 ` Spam Gerrit P. Haase
2002-04-29  8:36 ` Spam Christopher Faylor
2000-10-15 19:17 SPAM Timothee Besset
2000-10-15 22:40 ` SPAM Tim Prince

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