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Re: spam return address backlash
From: Cal Frye <cjf () CALFRYE COM>
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2007 16:24:20 -0500
Russell Fulton ventured to comment, at 1/12/07 7:14 PM:
H. Morrow Long wrote:When it comes to receiving and relaying telephone messages for their parents some children function as a write-only recording mechanism (or null sink).Goodness! I'm shocked! -- I thought it was just my kids. I also have problems with false ACKs, with subsequent repudiation -- acknowledgement that message was received when subsequent events indicate it never was and the recipient vigorously denies it was ever delivered.
Not to mention the audio/visual special effects that only decrease the signal-to-noise ratio. One may hope that soon enough they might move off to one of your fine institutions and leave the answering machine to return to its rightful occupation ;-) -- Regards, -- Cal Frye, Network Administrator, Oberlin College www.calfrye.com, www.pitalabs.com "The survival value of human intelligence has yet to be proven."
Current thread:
- Re: spam return address backlash, (continued)
- Re: spam return address backlash Cal Frye (Jan 10)
- Re: spam return address backlash Roger Safian (Jan 11)
- Re: spam return address backlash Jeff Giacobbe (Jan 11)
- Re: spam return address backlash Roger Safian (Jan 11)
- Re: spam return address backlash H. Morrow Long (Jan 11)
- Re: spam return address backlash Cal Frye (Jan 11)
- Re: spam return address backlash Roger Safian (Jan 11)
- Re: spam return address backlash Cal Frye (Jan 11)
- Re: spam return address backlash Paul Russell (Jan 11)
- Re: spam return address backlash Russell Fulton (Jan 12)
- Re: spam return address backlash Cal Frye (Jan 13)