From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 3 22:47:49 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B837E37B400 for ; Wed, 3 Jul 2002 22:47:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bilbo.in.mat.cc (bilbo.in.mat.cc [212.43.217.121]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D44A43E31 for ; Wed, 3 Jul 2002 22:47:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mat@mat.cc) Received: from sauron (sauron.in.mat.cc [212.43.217.122]) by bilbo.in.mat.cc (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E53471183; Thu, 4 Jul 2002 07:47:42 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 04 Jul 2002 07:47:42 +0200 From: Mathieu Arnold To: bastill@sa.apana.org.au, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au Subject: Re: [OT] ISP anti-spam Message-ID: <208425312.1025768862@sauron> In-Reply-To: <200207040113.g641DFL87663@tierzero.apana.org.au> References: <200207040113.g641DFL87663@tierzero.apana.org.au> X-Mailer: Mulberry/3.0.0a3 (Win32) X-wazaaa: True, true MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --On jeudi 4 juillet 2002 10:48 +0930 Brian Astill wrote: > There seems to be a movement among ISPs to "help" us by applying > spamassasin (or similar) to all mail they handle - IN or OUT. > Is this an invasion of privacy? > Is such behaviour dangerous, in suggesting to political control freaks > that Internet Control is possible and desirable? > Would it be MUCH better for all users to be encouraged to use spam > filters, if they wish? > > What do people think on these and related issues? I surely prefer spam hi my inbox and delete it manually than loose mail. -- Mathieu Arnold To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message