Re: Dealing with spam
Pablo Sanchez (pablo@mew.corp.sgi.com)
Wed, 23 Apr 1997 15:27:17 -0600
On Apr 23, 11:16am, Rev. Mama Lani wrote:
> Subject: Re: Dealing with spam
> On Wed, 23 Apr 1997, Pablo Sanchez wrote:
> >If I was the type of person who wanted to abuse the net, I would:
> > o sell spamming software to everyone and anyone
> > o alias {abuse,root,postmaster}@site to /dev/null
> > o be very secure about my system
> >My point is what was suggested won't do any good... eventually. I
> >really believe that the only way to combat spam is at the receiving
> >end. Kinda backwards but...
>
> If you're going to take the stance that it is the consumer's
> responsibility not to be bombarded with unwanted, unsolicited and
> objectionable commercial email/spam, then *my* take on it would be to
> provide added value at the ISP level.
As long as the ISP doesn't get into trouble with censoring and all
that good jazz, ya I'm with you.
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