Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2006 08:48:13 -0800 From: "jdow" <jdow@earthlink.net> To: <danial_thom@yahoo.com>, "David Banning" <davidernest@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Spamcop listed - need help to diagnose why Message-ID: <038301c6153c$7bb246e0$1225a8c0@kittycat> References: <20060109161408.21651.qmail@web33304.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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From: "Danial Thom" <danial_thom@yahoo.com>
> --- jdow <jdow@earthlink.net> wrote:
>
>> From: "David Banning" <davidernest@gmail.com>
>>
>> > Thanks for the response, Robert. I know tmda
>> and such services anger
>> > some people. I also find other people who
>> ask me how they can get
>> > such a service, only because spam is so
>> difficult to block. I guess it
>> > depends on how important email is to you. I
>> would never ask a question
>> > on this board and expect people to confirm,
>> but in business I find it
>> > helpful. I compare it to the benefit vs
>> hassle of voice mail; some who
>> > must leave messages hate it, but I find both
>> voice mail and tmda
>> > services actuals stops certain types of calls
>> or email that I do not
>> > -want-.
>>
>> I simply place tmda challenge addresses into my
>> /dev/null list and never
>> see the problem again. I treat it like spam.
>> And I consider it to be
>> spam. So "pfft" I make it gone.
>>
>> {^_^} Joanne
>
> I'm of the opposite thinking. I'd rather sort
> through a bunch of spam everyday rather than miss
> 1 important message. If I miss 1 inquiry it could
> cost me 1000s of dollars. Spam is an annoyance,
> nothing more. There is no sense cutting off your
> nose to spite your face.
>
> People with challenge systems crack me up. They
> wonder why they don't get their receipts when
> they order things, or why they miss important
> automated correspondence about their orders.
Spam I sort through. With SpamAssassin scoring it's easy to find
the low scores and concentrate on them. But somebody arrogant enough
to spam me with a challenge for a message to a mailing list ends
up on my procmail /dev/null rules. (I use fetchmail to grab mail
and procmail to feed it to /var/spool/mail/<name> with stops along
the way for SpamAssassin, ClamAv, and some random cleverness.)
{^_^} Challenges are as bad as the spam they try to prevent.
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