Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/

["Susan LaBarre" <idodesign AT earthlink.net>]

I apologize to all for my heinous spam filter and will look into a gmail
account. Lots of folks have responded to me from this list offline and this
is the first time anyone has belabored the spam filter issue. 

This list is notorious for debating minutia... and the tangents are usually
interesting. But to go on and on about my spam filter and bypass the content
of my email is unnecessarily embarrassing and doesn't address any issues
about peace or climate change. 

Susan

-----Original Message-----
From: internetworkers-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org
[mailto:internetworkers-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of John
Berninger
Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2007 10:42 AM
To: Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/
Subject: Re: [internetworkers] Peace in Our Hearts, Peace in the World...
and Peace in the Park this Saturday

Cristóbal Palmer wrote:
> For those of you with Earthlink accounts: messages like the one below 
> are frustrating and bothersome. They're also a source of backscatter.
> Eg. see this old-ish forum post:
>
> http://www.webservertalk.com/archive154-2005-2-933150.html
>
> Please just get a gmail account. Gmail is awesome all around, but it 
> especially kicks butt at dealing with spam. I have a very public email 
> address that is all over the internet and yet I still only get about 
> two spam messages a day that I have to manually tag as spam, vs.
> 100-300 spam messages that hit my spam trap on any given weekday.
> Impressive
Actually, IMHO, these types of messages are themselves spam and should be
reported as such.  They're just as offensive and unnecessary as an Outlook
vacation auto-responder that says "I've gone home to the wife for the day -
be back tomorrow at 8 am!" (and yes, I've gotten those types of
auto-responses as well).  Anytime I get an auto-response like this, I do in
fact treat it as spam and report it as such.

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John
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