sorbs.net

Tue Mar 22 15:27:21 UTC 2005

>>>>> On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 09:35:02 +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian <ops.lists at gmail.com> said:

Suresh> Luckily, quite a few people who turn on dumb spam filters do
Suresh> turn them off when contacted and told about their bad
Suresh> filtering.  Some make the mistake of not doing so - and
Suresh> they'll be destined to lose email for their users, on a
Suresh> permanent basis.

I wish it were always so easy.  I've been talking to an administrator
lately who's policy is that "loosing occasional email is ok if it
means we keep out a whole bunch of spam".  If they're that far over
the fence I'd need a strong bull with a long rope to try to pull them
back to my side.  I keep trying to tell him I'm potentially losing
business due to his position, but he's convinced spam is worse.

Some people simply can't be educated.

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