[26716] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Fw: Administrivia: ORBS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Allen Simpson)
Fri Jan 14 00:25:47 2000
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Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2000 00:20:13 -0500
From: William Allen Simpson <wsimpson@greendragon.com>
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To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
Cc: "Greg A. Woods" <woods@most.weird.com>, nanog@merit.edu
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Randy Bush wrote:
>
> > Please let me just say that I believe your post has gone a long way
> > towards proving that your net.friends may not have been 100% right!
>
> if there was a market for nerd hysteria/hyperbole, there would be no need
> for internet ipos.
>
Uh, I don't understand this comment, Randy. He was giving you a
compliment -- your lucid posting showed that your net.freinds were not
100% correct, when saying that "rational discussion of anti-spam seemed
socially impossible."
We _can_ have a rational discussion, it just doesn't seem to happen
very often. :-)
Meanwhile, although I do not use ORBS for blocking, I do occaisionally
use it for testing. Unfortunately, I used it for testing my site, and
it discovered that the (commercial) mailing software still supports
the old % hack, and now ORBS blocks the site. I dunno why that is
considered "spam". Anyway, the commercial folks didn't know it was
still in there, either, and it will be eradicated in the next release.
WSimpson@UMich.edu
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