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Re: SORBS Contact
From: Allan Poindexter <apoindex () aoc nrao edu>
Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2006 23:17:12 -0600
william> In the way you describe it any spam filter is bad any spam william> filter manufacturer should go to jail... Manufacturer? No. It is perfectly permissible for a recipient to run a filter over his own mail if he wishes. Jail? Not what I said. I said postal workers couldn't get away with this behavior. The laws governing email are different. BUT: They aren't as different as is generally believed. Go read the ECPA sometime. Being legal isn't the same thing as being moral. The world would be a better place if people started worrying about doing what is right rather than only avoiding what will get them in jail. If I seem testy about this it is because I am. A friend of mine with cancer died recently. I learned later she sent me email befoe she died. It did not reach me because some arrogant fool thought he knew better than me what I wanted to read. And it isn't the first time or the only sender with which I have had this problem. I have had plenty of users with the same complaint as well. I have in the past considered this antispam stuff "ill advised" or "something I oppose". Expect me to fight it tooth and nail from now on.
Current thread:
- Re: SORBS Contact, (continued)
- Re: SORBS Contact Matthew Sullivan (Aug 09)
- Re: SORBS Contact Allan Poindexter (Aug 09)
- Re: SORBS Contact Christopher L. Morrow (Aug 09)
- RE: SORBS Contact Robert J. Hantson (Aug 09)
- RE: SORBS Contact Christopher L. Morrow (Aug 09)
- Re: SORBS Contact Steve Atkins (Aug 09)
- Re: SORBS Contact Rich Kulawiec (Aug 10)
- Re: SORBS Contact Todd Vierling (Aug 09)
- Re: SORBS Contact Allan Poindexter (Aug 09)
- Re: SORBS Contact william(at)elan.net (Aug 09)
- Re: SORBS Contact Allan Poindexter (Aug 09)
- Re: SORBS Contact william(at)elan.net (Aug 10)
- Re: SORBS Contact Todd Vierling (Aug 09)
- Re: SORBS Contact Steve Sobol (Aug 10)
- Re: SORBS Contact Derek J. Balling (Aug 09)
- Re: SORBS Contact Allan Poindexter (Aug 09)
- Re: SORBS Contact Dave Pooser (Aug 09)
- Re: SORBS Contact Joel Jaeggli (Aug 10)
- Re: SORBS Contact Matthew Sullivan (Aug 09)
- Re: SORBS Contact Steve Sobol (Aug 10)
- Re: SORBS Contact Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr. (Aug 11)