And on the topic of rude e-mail behavior, here''s a great example. ----- Forwarded message from royk@pixiehost.com ----- X-Boxtrapper: MZZrHJByO2DBX0Xl5ZZSXY6cxmfPwBM6 From: royk@pixiehost.com To: mej@caosity.org Subject: Your email requires verification verify#e1vljxO92V9BQTavqTwjjhUlglSbt8wx Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 13:29:21 -0600 The message you sent requires that you verify that you are a real live human being and not a spam source. To complete this verification, simply reply to this message and leave the subject line intact. The headers of the message sent from your address are show below: ----- End forwarded message ----- Fortunately I blacklist all senders of such flotsam and forward them to my spam trainer. Michael -- Michael Jennings (a.k.a. KainX) http://www.kainx.org/ <mej@kainx.org> n + 1, Inc., http://www.nplus1.net/ Author, Eterm (www.eterm.org) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- "There''s just something about debugging with a buggy debugger that reeks of rotten luck...."
and exactly why do you consider this to be rude?> Fortunately I blacklist all senders of such flotsam and forward them > to my spam trainer.
On Tuesday, 15 March 2005, at 21:39:01 (+0100), Maciej ?enczykowski wrote:> and exactly why do you consider this to be rude?Because it does far more to exacerbate the problem than to alleviate it. Michael -- Michael Jennings (a.k.a. KainX) http://www.kainx.org/ <mej@kainx.org> n + 1, Inc., http://www.nplus1.net/ Author, Eterm (www.eterm.org) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- "Why are they always blaming everything on rappers? Don''t blame the youth. Blame the wicked culture. Every Sunday night on TV, Angela Lansbury taught these kids violence on ''Murder, She Wrote.'' Blame the reruns of ''Have Gun, Will Travel'' and ''Gunsmoke.''" -- Reverend Al Sharpton on the media coverage of the late Notorious B.I.G.
Ah, I think I now know :) On Tue, 15 Mar 2005, Maciej ?enczykowski wrote:> and exactly why do you consider this to be rude? > > > Fortunately I blacklist all senders of such flotsam and forward them > > to my spam trainer. > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@caosity.org > http://lists.caosity.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >
Maciej ?enczykowski wrote:> and exactly why do you consider this to be rude? > > >>Fortunately I blacklist all senders of such flotsam and forward them >>to my spam trainer. >What is the point in having a whitelist-only email address subscribed to a Mailing list ? Do you think people would care enough about you to actually go and validate each post just for your viewing pleasure ? What if there were 10 such email address'' subscribed to this mailing list ? what if there were a 100 ? - K -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ GnuPG Public Key : http://www.karan.org/publickey.asc
> What is the point in having a whitelist-only email address subscribed to > a Mailing list ? Do you think people would care enough about you to > actually go and validate each post just for your viewing pleasure ? > > What if there were 10 such email address'' subscribed to this mailing list ? > > what if there were a 100 ?I agree. I didn''t realise it sent these messages out for every post through the list... I thought it only sent it for posts directly to him.
Fascinating thread but not really related to Centos... perhaps ladies/gentlemen you would like to take this thread offline, and then you can validate emails to your hearts content..... Or perhaps use spamassasin and mimedefang to filter out spam for you....and negate the use of such a whitelisting system :-) Maciej ?enczykowski wrote:>>What is the point in having a whitelist-only email address subscribed to >>a Mailing list ? Do you think people would care enough about you to >>actually go and validate each post just for your viewing pleasure ? >> >>What if there were 10 such email address'' subscribed to this mailing list ? >> >>what if there were a 100 ? >> >> > >I agree. I didn''t realise it sent these messages out for every post >through the list... I thought it only sent it for posts directly to him. >_______________________________________________ >CentOS mailing list >CentOS@caosity.org >http://lists.caosity.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > >
On Tuesday, 15 March 2005, at 23:28:19 (+0000), Peter Farrow wrote:> Fascinating thread but not really related to Centos... > > perhaps ladies/gentlemen you would like to take this thread offline, > and then you can validate emails to your hearts content.....http://email.about.com/cs/netiquettetips/a/et062601.htm HTH, Michael -- Michael Jennings (a.k.a. KainX) http://www.kainx.org/ <mej@kainx.org> n + 1, Inc., http://www.nplus1.net/ Author, Eterm (www.eterm.org) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- "I don''t care if you win or lose, just as long as you win." -- Vince Lombardi