From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/40033 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Harry Putnam Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: thoughts on spam Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2001 11:33:10 -0800 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <87y9m9fs6b.fsf@squeaker.lickey.com> <20011102160930.CC3D1BD52@squeaker.lickey.com> <87wv192jzh.fsf_-_@mclinux.com> <861yjgbygz.fsf@duchess.twilley.org> <20011102235444.E9C73BD48@squeaker.lickey.com> <87n122s9k8.fsf@squeaker.lickey.com> <87g07tgqeu.fsf@squeaker.lickey.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035175647 31098 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 04:47:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 04:47:27 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 23996 invoked from network); 5 Nov 2001 19:38:07 -0000 Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu (mail@129.7.128.13) by mastaler.com with SMTP; 5 Nov 2001 19:38:07 -0000 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 160pXk-0006IL-00; Mon, 05 Nov 2001 13:36:24 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Mon, 05 Nov 2001 13:36:05 -0600 (CST) 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 NAA13581 for ; Mon, 5 Nov 2001 13:35:48 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 23928 invoked by alias); 5 Nov 2001 19:35:49 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 23923 invoked from network); 5 Nov 2001 19:35:49 -0000 Original-Received: from smtp.newsguy.com (HELO newsguy.com) (209.155.56.71) by gnus.org with SMTP; 5 Nov 2001 19:35:49 -0000 Original-Received: from reader.local.lan (66.51.210.228.dslextreme.com [66.51.210.228] (may be forged)) by newsguy.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id LAA34455 for ; Mon, 5 Nov 2001 11:35:19 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: (from reader@localhost) by reader.local.lan (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fA5JZIu23404; Mon, 5 Nov 2001 11:35:18 -0800 X-Authentication-Warning: reader.local.lan: reader set sender to reader@newsguy.com using -f Original-To: "(ding)" In-Reply-To: (Stainless Steel Rat's message of "05 Nov 2001 11:57:16 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) Emacs/21.1 (i586-pc-linux-gnu) Original-Lines: 19 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:40033 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:40033 Stainless Steel Rat writes: > * "Matt Armstrong" on Mon, 05 Nov 2001 > | Of course, if I dumped every software package that ever screwed me > | over due to a mis-configuration, I'd have dumped Gnus years ago. ;-) > > Let's just say that there is a difference between oneself being reamed by a > bug and an entire company of some 350 employees being reamed by a feature. Matt, has gnus actually ever lost mail for you... I've never heard any one say that? I have never lost mail with it since my first usages around quassia-15 or so, and I am probably one of the most sloppy and least informed of its users. The only time I remember actually losing mail while using gnus, it was from unleashing a really stupid rogue `rm -rf' that leveled News Mail and every other non-dot file in ~/