[78724] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: sorbs.net
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Wes Hardaker)
Tue Mar 22 10:27:59 2005
From: Wes Hardaker <wjhns61@hardakers.net>
To: Suresh Ramasubramanian <ops.lists@gmail.com>
Cc: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@baylink.com>, nanog@merit.edu
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 07:27:21 -0800
In-Reply-To: <bb0e440a05032120051530f21a@mail.gmail.com> (Suresh
Ramasubramanian's message of "Tue, 22 Mar 2005 09:35:02 +0530")
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
>>>>> On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 09:35:02 +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian <ops.lists@gmail.com> said:
Suresh> Luckily, quite a few people who turn on dumb spam filters do
Suresh> turn them off when contacted and told about their bad
Suresh> filtering. Some make the mistake of not doing so - and
Suresh> they'll be destined to lose email for their users, on a
Suresh> permanent basis.
I wish it were always so easy. I've been talking to an administrator
lately who's policy is that "loosing occasional email is ok if it
means we keep out a whole bunch of spam". If they're that far over
the fence I'd need a strong bull with a long rope to try to pull them
back to my side. I keep trying to tell him I'm potentially losing
business due to his position, but he's convinced spam is worse.
Some people simply can't be educated.
--
"In the bathtub of history the truth is harder to hold than the soap,
and much more difficult to find." -- Terry Pratchett
