Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 01:03:46 -0800 From: Jesse Monroy <jessem@svbug.com> To: "Daniel P. Kionka" <dan@kionka.org> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SVBUG what happened tonight (12-04-2003) Message-ID: <5.2.1.1.0.20031211004748.00a34040@dnull.com> In-Reply-To: <006901c3bcdf$dc72dd30$1c00a8c0@mainpc> References: <20031205072751.7227.qmail@dnull.com>
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At 08:33 AM 12/7/03 -0800, Daniel P. Kionka wrote: >.... >Doesn't a white-list lock out new people? Like what is the use of listing >contact info on a web page if no one can get through? Dan, Thanks for waiting on a response. There is a common misconception about white lists. While your comment is along those lines, it is not unusual. The common misconception about white lists is that it is a exclusive list of allowed email. This is not the case. In fact, it is just a list of emails that get priority. I am by no means advocating, or suggesting, that a person use white lists as the only people one should get email from. As for public contact via email, there are solutions, but that is part of my talk. I plan to present these points again, at many different club meetings. My impression, as with ssh, is that the technical community is spending too much time on the wrong problem. Sure one might make lots of money selling knock-off copies of Spam-Assassin, but it does not solve the issue. For that matter, neither Spam-Assassin nor Bayesian(sp?) filters will make a bit of difference in the long run. Sure someone will profess to have great success with it, but I hardly find that to be the general case. Before I digress into dribble, let me leave it at that. As for hackers@freebsd, et al. :p Have a nice day, Dan. Jessem.
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