On Mon, 2007-06-18 at 09:09 -0400, Randy Vice wrote: > On Mon, 18 Jun 2007, Ed Greshko wrote: > > > jdow wrote: > >> Chu - directing that at greshko might have been more appropriate. > >> "Ed" was most impolite for no good reason. "Scroom and the horse > >> he rode in on," would be a suitable reply for Ed's behavior. > > > > I'm not sure about "no good reason". Somebody signs up for a mailing list > > with their "normal" email address and it gets harvested and they get more > > spam and then say the distribution is flawed based on that.....well it just > > gets my goat. The induhvidual blames everyone except themselves. > > > > Let's not get into a tit for tat on "behavior" shall we. I can surely point > > out times where others "behavior" went over my line....or is it over your > > line....or is it over some imaginary line.... > > > > The simple point I suppose I should have made is...you put your email > > address on a public list and you expose yourself to spam. Should the email > > list be responsible to protect you from your folly? I think not. > > It would nice if Fedora was to setup spam filters when someone selects > a SMTP to be installed. Sort of like how IPtables is setup to be > installed and running at boot. > > Randy How about pointing out that Linux has spam fighting programs that can be used? -- ======================================================================= I'm having an EMOTIONAL OUTBURST!! But, uh, WHY is there a WAFFLE in my PAJAMA POCKET?? ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
