[91691] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: SORBS Contact
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (william(at)elan.net)
Thu Aug 10 00:40:08 2006
Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2006 21:39:22 -0700 (PDT)
From: "william(at)elan.net" <william@elan.net>
To: Allan Poindexter <apoindex@aoc.nrao.edu>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <yu9odut9pns.fsf@aoc.nrao.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
In the way you describe it any spam filter is bad any spam filter
manufacturer should go to jail...
On Wed, 9 Aug 2006, Allan Poindexter wrote:
> Todd> There are simple solutions to this. They do work in spite of
> Todd> the moanings of the few who have been mistakenly blocked.
>
> So it is OK so long as we only defame a few people and potentially
> ruin their lives?
>
> Todd> In the meantime my patience with email "lost" in the sea of
> Todd> spam not blocked by blacklists, etc. is growing thin.
>
> Hmm. Let me think a minute. Nope not buying it. I have already
> given two simple solutions that don't involve potentially dropping job
> offers, wedding invitations, letters from old sweethearts, and other
> such irreplaceable email. Certainly it is impossible to guarantee all
> mail gets delivered. But to intentionally make it worse by
> deliberately deleting other people's email is arrogant and immoral.
>
> On the other side what do we have for those falsely defamed? I
> suppose we could psychically contact them to tell them their mail was
> deleted. Certainly email won't be reliable enough after these guys
> are done with it.
>
> If they worked for the post office these guys would be in jail.
