Phishing and BGP Blackholing

Wed Jan 3 13:03:44 UTC 2007

On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 05:44:28PM +1300, Mark Foster wrote:
> So why the big deal?

Because it's very rude -- like top-posting, or full-quoting, or sending
email marked up with HTML.  Because it's an unprovoked threat.  Because
it's an attempt to unilaterally shove an unenforceable contract down
the throats of everyone reading it.  Because it's a tip-off that the
sender does not value the time or resources of recipients.  Because it's
insulting.  Because (borrowing from first link below) it's simply too
stupid for words.

Please see:

	Mailing and Posting Etiquette: Don't Send Bogus Legalistic Boilerplate
	http://www.river.com/users/share/etiquette/#legalistic

	Stupid Email Disclaimers
	http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/stupid-disclaimers/

	Stupid E-mail Disclaimers and the Stupid Users that Use Them
	http://attrition.org/security/rants/z/disclaimers.html

for longer (and much better) explanations.  For a much long explanation
of these and related points, see:

	Miss Mailers Answers Your Questions on Mailing Lists
	http://www.faqs.org/faqs/mail/miss-mailers/

---Rsk