From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/50465 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Wuertele Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: road warrior trying to simplify a mail setup Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 16:32:22 -0800 Organization: Berkeley Fluent Network Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <86fzr2ek0j.fsf@red.stonehenge.com> <86isvmccti.fsf@red.stonehenge.com> <86wuk2axo8.fsf@red.stonehenge.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1046479173 14578 80.91.224.249 (1 Mar 2003 00:39:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2003 00:39:33 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18ov2J-0003mq-00 for ; Sat, 01 Mar 2003 01:39:31 +0100 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 18ov0w-0008DY-00; Fri, 28 Feb 2003 18:38:06 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Fri, 28 Feb 2003 18:39:05 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from main.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.224.249]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA20873 for ; Fri, 28 Feb 2003 18:38:53 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18ov0K-0003hv-00 for ; Sat, 01 Mar 2003 01:37:28 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: ding@hpc.uh.edu Original-Received: from news by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18ov0K-0003hm-00 for ; Sat, 01 Mar 2003 01:37:28 +0100 Original-Lines: 38 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.090014 (Oort Gnus v0.14) Emacs/21.2 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Cancel-Lock: sha1:HslvPlMSvnKhFu8qS0TR/HJ2c5Y= Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:50465 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:50465 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