From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/45957 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Scott A Crosby Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: new spam functionality added Date: 01 Aug 2002 17:06:24 -0500 Organization: Rice University Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <87y9brejam.fsf@mail.paradoxical.net> <873ctztyth.fsf@mail.paradoxical.net> <87bs8nsh7g.fsf@mail.paradoxical.net> <87fzxziifw.fsf@wesley.springies.com> <87ptx2wezj.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 1028239652 10018 127.0.0.1 (1 Aug 2002 22:07:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2002 22:07:32 +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 17aO6U-0002bT-00 for ; Fri, 02 Aug 2002 00:07:30 +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 17aO5m-00087G-00; Thu, 01 Aug 2002 17:06:46 -0500 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Thu, 01 Aug 2002 17:07:13 -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 RAA13096 for ; Thu, 1 Aug 2002 17:07:00 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: (qmail 24318 invoked by alias); 1 Aug 2002 22:06:28 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 24313 invoked from network); 1 Aug 2002 22:06:28 -0000 Original-Received: from cs.rice.edu (128.42.1.30) by gnus.org with SMTP; 1 Aug 2002 22:06:28 -0000 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cs.rice.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9ACBB4AA23 for ; Thu, 1 Aug 2002 17:06:27 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sam.cs.rice.edu (sam.cs.rice.edu [128.42.3.145]) by cs.rice.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2AA204A9CB for ; Thu, 1 Aug 2002 17:06:27 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sam.cs.rice.edu (Postfix, from userid 14314) id 285A5739E5; Thu, 1 Aug 2002 17:06:25 -0500 (CDT) Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: <87ptx2wezj.fsf@mail.paradoxical.net> Original-Lines: 28 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.4 (Common Lisp) X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS snapshot-20020300 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:45957 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:45957 On Thu, 01 Aug 2002 15:33:52 -0400, Josh Huber writes: > David Masterson writes: > > > All complex systems suffer these problems for a time. Then someone > > figures out how to improve the configuration process and the > > problems die down. Eventually, Linux distributions could > > automatically setup a basic TMDA environment (ie. purely "dated" > > addresses) and provide tools to adjust the configuration for > > specific issues. > > Right, even if you don't request confirmation on your usual bare > address, using dated addresses which only ask for confirmation when > they have expired would be a huge win for posting on lists and usenet. > For mailing lists and usenet. However, if I want a a bunch of 'date limited' email addresses, I just subscribe to hundreds of mailing lists and use those addresses for a week. And, web pages can't really support 'date-limited' addresses. Nor can resume's. Nor do address books. (Hey Cynbe, you said you were working on XXX and didn't know how to do YYY, well, my friend at CMU at $UNUSABLE_ADDRESS knows how to use YYY.) So, little benefit, and a lot of hassle put upon everyone else. Scott