Proposal: New list etiquette/rule

Spam Arrest Sender VerificationYesterday we held an amusing discussion which highlighted the futility of using (badly implemented) technological 'solutions' to a social problem... Herewith I attach a response received pursuant to a list contribution. Does this 'gentleman' seriously expect every list contributor to provide him with a personal service requesting permission to be allowed to post to him? What happens if dozens of his colleagues join up? BTW I will, happily, for my hourly fee (minimum charge four hours)! Suggest that the list 'rules' be updated to point out that such requirements are unlikely to be received favorably, so if he wants to join the community he needs to do 'join' us (not vice-versa). NB I know that technically I've broken my/the list's rules by reproducing this in HTML, and have done so that those who can, are able to see the stupidity in its full glory/know which service NOT to use... Regards, =dn ----- Original Message ----- From: Kadir To: phpml@dande.homechoice.co.uk Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2002 11:51 AM Subject: RE: Re: [PHP-DB] Formatting txt from a database (verification) Kadir here, I'm protecting myself from receiving junk mail. Just this once, click the link below so I can receive your emails. You won't have to do this again. http://spamarrest.com/a?33905301:611961 You are receiving this message in response to your email to Kadir, a Spam Arrest customer. Spam Arrest requests that senders verify themselves before their email is delivered. When you click the above link, you will be taken to a page with a graphic on it. Simply read the word in the graphic, type it into the form, and you're verified. You will only need to do this once per Spam Arrest customer.