From owner-freebsd-doc Wed Apr 12 18:33: 5 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from kestrel.prod.itd.earthlink.net (kestrel.prod.itd.earthlink.net [207.217.121.155]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6AA037BB27 for ; Wed, 12 Apr 2000 18:33:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from eogren@rod.darktech.org) Received: from rod.darktech.org (ip129.cambridge1.ma.pub-ip.psi.net [38.32.111.129]) by kestrel.prod.itd.earthlink.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA05093; Wed, 12 Apr 2000 18:32:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from eogren@localhost) by rod.darktech.org (8.10.1/8.10.1) id e3D1Y6c01713; Wed, 12 Apr 2000 21:34:06 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 21:34:05 -0400 From: Eric Ogren To: Greg Lehey Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [Jonathan Michaels]: re cutting edge patch Message-ID: <20000412213405.A378@earthlink.net> References: <20000411151206.E304@earthlink.net> <20000412160042.L35391@freebie.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <20000412160042.L35391@freebie.lemis.com>; from grog@lemis.com on Wed, Apr 12, 2000 at 04:00:43PM +0930 Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org [sorry, but as Greg mentioned, I can't reply to him directly] On Wed, Apr 12, 2000 at 04:00:43PM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: > On Tuesday, 11 April 2000 at 15:12:06 -0400, Eric Ogren wrote: > > Hmm. I don't know if that's going to happen. I block Earthlink as > well (so you won't be able to reply to me). The problem is, 99% of > all mail from Earthlink is spam, and we just can't be bothered with > the rest. Is this the kind of company you want to keep? Well, the question is more "Do I want to change my email address now, going through the procedure of unsubscribing/resubscribing/giving out my new email address to people, and then go through the same thing again in September (college)?" That, and, because I live in the middle of nowhere, there are very few ISPs that have a POP in my area, and those that do are usually either more expensive or don't have a flat rate. I am of course no supporter of spam, and if I wasn't relaying through earthlink's SMTP servers I wouldn't be surprised when my email got rejected. However, I am not so virulently anti-spam that I think it is justified to block a major ISP. It's not like earthlink is a 5 user ISP, where you may catch one user in the anti-spam crossfire; I would think that there are a good deal of non-spammers who use earthlink. Of course, my less-militant view on spam may be because I do not run an ISP myself, so I don't have to deal with 3*10^8 messages from spammers a day (instead, only 20), but... Eric To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message