Re: road warrior trying to simplify a mail setup

[David Wuertele <dave-gnus@bfnet.com>]

Randal> If you're interested in actually having a conversation, get
Randal> rid of your anti-spam software.
Randal> It sucks.

It was misconfigured.

Sorry if TMDA caused you grief.  It hasn't caused me any.  In fact, it
has solved *all* the spam problems I had.  If it has introduced new
ones, I haven't discovered them yet.  As long as I don't, you can have
my spam software when you pry it from my...

Randal> Moral of the story: if you install anti-spam software that
Randal> requires a positive confirmation before unblocking an address
Randal> (a) there'll be people that never bother, and so you never
Randal> hear from them, and (b) sometimes your software sucks and
Randal> blocks people even when they follow the actions to the letter.

a) if they don't bother, and I don't hear from them, it must not have
   been very important.  There are many more ways to get hold of me
   than by email.

b) sometimes user error is the real cause of suckage.  that was the
   case this time.  Mea culpa, I actually tried to do something
   different than how the "manual" said to do it.

Randal> If you don't want spam, don't have an email adddress.  Get
Randal> over it.

I think you're just lashing out due to frustration.  I don't have any
other explanation for an engineer deciding that there is no way to
solve a problem.

I haven't seen a single spam since I started using TMDA, and the only
issue I've had was your email.  There was a period of an hour or two
when I had set up my dot qmail files incorrectly --- so the problem
wasn't even related to TMDA, it was my misconfiguration of qmail.

Dave