Re: [MAILER-DAEMON@sourceware.cygnus.com: failure notice]

[Jason Molenda <jason@molenda.com>]

On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 10:10:14AM -0800, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> I sent this message to Jeff Blaine.

Wow, you're really diplomatic.  As everyone on overseers knows by now :-),
there are times when I have little patience.

One note:

> So our choices are: 1) permit spam to the mailing lists, in which case
> we get regular complaints and some people unsubscribe, or 2) prohibit
> spam to the mailing lists, in which case some people are unfairly
> denied access, and must send their mail to somebody else in order to
> get it onto the mailing list.
> 
> I wish there was a third option, but in the present state of the
> Internet we unfortunately do not see one.


A third option is to get their mail server fixed.  The complaintant
in this instance is probably not going to see this happen, but it's
not impossible in most cases.

Another option is to use a free e-mail service like, oh I don't
know, Yahoo Mail.  Set up a Yahoo Mail account and you can send
your outgoing mail through them, and you can even retrieve any
Yahoo Mail via POP3.  I'm sure Hotmail and other free mail services
on the net provide similar services.


Jason