From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/45460 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stainless Steel Rat Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] contrib/hashcash.el spam fighter Date: Mon, 01 Jul 2002 11:20:27 -0400 Organization: The Happy Fun Ball Brigade Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <02Jul1.111151edt.119355@gateway.intersystems.com> References: <02Jun24.115740edt.119250@gateway.intersystems.com> <02Jun24.151839edt.119751@gateway.intersystems.com> <02Jun25.104630edt.119271@gateway.intersystems.com> <02Jun28.122222edt.119118@gateway.intersystems.com> <02Jun28.172137edt.119392@gateway.intersystems.com> <87sn346jjb.fsf@home.lan> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1025536975 2641 127.0.0.1 (1 Jul 2002 15:22:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2002 15:22:55 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 17P30x-0000gS-00 for ; Mon, 01 Jul 2002 17:22:55 +0200 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 17P2zW-0001eO-00; Mon, 01 Jul 2002 10:21:26 -0500 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Mon, 01 Jul 2002 10:21:47 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (qmailr@sclp3.sclp.com [209.196.61.66]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id KAA04733 for ; Mon, 1 Jul 2002 10:21:35 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: (qmail 28302 invoked by alias); 1 Jul 2002 15:21:08 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 28297 invoked from network); 1 Jul 2002 15:21:08 -0000 Original-Received: from gateway.intersys.com (HELO intersystems.com) (198.133.74.253) by gnus.org with SMTP; 1 Jul 2002 15:21:08 -0000 Original-Received: by gateway.intersystems.com id <119355>; Mon, 1 Jul 2002 11:11:51 -0400 Original-To: "(ding)" X-Attribution: Rat In-Reply-To: <87sn346jjb.fsf@home.lan> (Steinar Bang's message of "Mon, 01 Jul 2002 08:37:12 +0200") Original-Lines: 19 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090006 (Oort Gnus v0.06) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley, i686-pc-linux) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:45460 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:45460 * Steinar Bang on Mon, 01 Jul 2002 | Note that if I had been one of those, your message would have ended up | in my spam folder, since I let everything not addressed to one of my | addresses, or a mailing list I subscribe to, "fall through" and end up | in nnimap+mymachine:INBOX.SPAM. True, Bcc to a mailing list is dumb. But blanket dropping Bcc'd mail is also not the smartest thing to do. Humans make mistakes, and accidentally delete mail they do not want to delete. That scheme makes it very easy to for humans to do so and not relize it. Remember, I am looking at this from the perspective of anything that leads to lost mail as being the Worst Thing Imagineable. -- Rat \ Happy Fun Ball contains a liquid core, Minion of Nathan - Nathan says Hi! \ which, if exposed due to rupture, should PGP Key: at a key server near you! \ not be touched, inhaled, or looked at. That and five bucks will get you a small coffee at Starbucks.