SORBS Contact

Thu Aug 10 04:39:22 UTC 2006

In the way you describe it any spam filter is bad any spam filter
manufacturer should go to jail...

On Wed, 9 Aug 2006, Allan Poindexter wrote:

>  Todd> There are simple solutions to this.  They do work in spite of
>  Todd> the moanings of the few who have been mistakenly blocked.
>
> So it is OK so long as we only defame a few people and potentially
> ruin their lives?
>
>  Todd> In the meantime my patience with email "lost" in the sea of
>  Todd> spam not blocked by blacklists, etc. is growing thin.
>
> Hmm.  Let me think a minute.  Nope not buying it.  I have already
> given two simple solutions that don't involve potentially dropping job
> offers, wedding invitations, letters from old sweethearts, and other
> such irreplaceable email.  Certainly it is impossible to guarantee all
> mail gets delivered.  But to intentionally make it worse by
> deliberately deleting other people's email is arrogant and immoral.
>
> On the other side what do we have for those falsely defamed?  I
> suppose we could psychically contact them to tell them their mail was
> deleted.  Certainly email won't be reliable enough after these guys
> are done with it.
>
> If they worked for the post office these guys would be in jail.