Re: Proposal: New list etiquette/rule

On Thursday 12 December 2002 20:06, DL Neil wrote: > 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... I haven't looked at the spam arrest site, but I'm sure they must provide a whitelisting feature where you can manually add people/lists from whom you definitely want to receive mail. In that case, as always, it's another case of user misconfiguration/ignorance. -- Jason Wong -> Gremlins Associates -> www.gremlins.biz Open Source Software Systems Integrators * Web Design & Hosting * Internet & Intranet Applications Development * /* The bug starts here. */