From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/45941 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Harry Putnam Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: new spam functionality added Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2002 10:38:43 -0700 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <87y9brejam.fsf@mail.paradoxical.net> <873ctztyth.fsf@mail.paradoxical.net> <02Jul31.171132edt.119710@gateway.intersystems.com> <87fzxzsit2.fsf@mail.paradoxical.net> <87bs8my0ih.fsf@mail.paradoxical.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1028223651 22962 127.0.0.1 (1 Aug 2002 17:40:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2002 17:40:51 +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 17aJwQ-0005yF-00 for ; Thu, 01 Aug 2002 19:40:50 +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 17aJwG-0005gb-00; Thu, 01 Aug 2002 12:40:40 -0500 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Thu, 01 Aug 2002 12:41:07 -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 MAA12321 for ; Thu, 1 Aug 2002 12:40:54 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: (qmail 16382 invoked by alias); 1 Aug 2002 17:40:22 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 16377 invoked from network); 1 Aug 2002 17:40:22 -0000 Original-Received: from mail.dslextreme.com (66.51.205.14) by gnus.org with SMTP; 1 Aug 2002 17:40:22 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 14789 invoked from network); 1 Aug 2002 17:37:26 -0000 Original-Received: from adsl-66.51.210.228.dslextreme.com (HELO reader.local.lan) (66.51.210.228) by mail.dslextreme.com with SMTP; 1 Aug 2002 17:37:26 -0000 Original-Received: from reader.local.lan (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by reader.local.lan (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g71HeI8f013938 for ; Thu, 1 Aug 2002 10:40:19 -0700 Original-Received: (from reader@localhost) by reader.local.lan (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g71HeIsB013936; Thu, 1 Aug 2002 10:40:18 -0700 X-Authentication-Warning: reader.local.lan: reader set sender to reader@newsguy.com using -f Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: <87bs8my0ih.fsf@mail.paradoxical.net> (Josh Huber's message of "Thu, 01 Aug 2002 13:03:34 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.090007 (Oort Gnus v0.07) Emacs/21.3.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Original-Lines: 25 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:45941 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:45941 Josh Huber writes: > Frank Schmitt writes: > >> I'm glad I live in Germany, here you can place a sign on your post >> box saying "No advertisements please" and you are rid of it. Hell, I >> wished it was the same for my E-Mail. > > Wow, that's so nice! > > I get about a 2:1 ratio of junk mail EVERY DAY in the US mail. > Typically it's constructed in such a way where you can't tell it's > junk until you open the envelope. Quite frustrating. I was considering that phenomena one day. I live in a 7 unit apartment building. Even that small number, in one week, accumulates a very large pile of junk mail. And that is only what gets left in the common bin. Not what people collect from there personal boxes. I began to wonder what kind of tonnage would be involved if one were to measure a weeks worth of that crap across the entire US. It a bit frightening... Seems it should be stopped by law somehow. It's one small source (compared to all trash) that could be done away with easily.