permaculture

[Loren Davidson <listmail@lorendavidson.com>]

At 5:59 AM -0500 11/26/05, Lawrence F. London, Jr. wrote:
> If people will take more responsibility for controlling spam in 
> their email themselves
> instead of blaming the list and suggesting that the list be crippled 
> they would see better results.

With all due respect...we are not all UNIX sysadmins. We do not all 
run our own mail servers. And IME, Permaculturists tend to have 
rather full schedules by definition, and may not have time to 
*become* mail server experts.

It's an imperfect world, after all.

"Blaming the victim" isn't a particularly helpful attitude to cop, if 
you ask me. Spam filters, for most of us, only help *after* the spam 
has been downloaded to the client, which still eats up the client's 
bandwidth. And no filter is perfect - most either let some spam 
through or toss stuff you'd rather keep.

Maybe it's true that Mailman has limits re masking email addresses 
and that you've reached them. You can make that statement without 
blaming all of us for our own spam. Still, the problem of spambots 
harvesting email addresses is hardly new; it's been a problem for at 
least five years. Maybe the folks who write Mailman have a better 
solution now?

One of my solutions is to have separate email addresses for personal 
mail and list mail and mail between me and businesses. That way I 
won't have to replace *all* my email addresses every 2-3 years. 
Perhaps this technique might help a few of you who, like I, don't 
have the time to become SMTP gods.

Respectfully,

Loren
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