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Re: Outgoing SMTP Servers
From: William Herrin <bill () herrin us>
Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2011 17:53:10 -0400
On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 3:17 PM, Dave CROCKER <dcrocker () bbiw net> wrote:
Your misunderstanding of physical pollution pollutes your understanding of spam. But it turns out that you seem to misunderstand spam quite a bit, independently.
Okay wise guy. Let's take another look at your version of email spam as pollution. Put some gangbangers in a truck and drive them down the street. These are our allegorical spammers. As the truck rolls they fire thousands of rounds, clip after clip, from Uzis aimed at every glass window that they see. Clearly I am mistaken to describe these gangbangers as mass murdering criminals. When I say that they and the folks who aided and abetted their spree should be locked away, I display my ignorance as to the nature of gangs. No, this is all really a matter of lead pollution: People taking too much advantage of the fact that it's generally OK to drive on the road, or throw objects through the air, a real tragedy of those commons. It's not like we can jail everybody who decides to shoot up a house. So, instead of hiring sheriffs whose our ire will land on folks who willfully or negligently shielded the gangbangers from detection and pursuit, we should forgive the complicit and restrict our efforts to bulletproof glass and generally reducing the rain of bullets to a more survivable level. Regards, Bill Herrin -- William D. Herrin ................ herrin () dirtside com bill () herrin us 3005 Crane Dr. ...................... Web: <http://bill.herrin.us/> Falls Church, VA 22042-3004
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- Re: Outgoing SMTP Servers, (continued)
- Re: Outgoing SMTP Servers Dave CROCKER (Oct 30)
- Re: Outgoing SMTP Servers Brian Johnson (Oct 30)
- Re: Outgoing SMTP Servers Dave CROCKER (Oct 30)
- Re: Outgoing SMTP Servers Michael Thomas (Oct 31)
- Re: Outgoing SMTP Servers Jack Bates (Oct 31)
- Re: Outgoing SMTP Servers Brian Johnson (Oct 31)
- Re: Outgoing SMTP Servers Jack Bates (Oct 31)
- Re: Outgoing SMTP Servers Robert Bonomi (Oct 31)
- Re: Outgoing SMTP Servers Brian Johnson (Oct 31)
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- RE: Outgoing SMTP Servers Brian Johnson (Oct 28)
- Re: Outgoing SMTP Servers Owen DeLong (Oct 28)
- Re: Outgoing SMTP Servers Bill Stewart (Oct 28)
- RE: Outgoing SMTP Servers Brian Johnson (Oct 31)
- Re: Outgoing SMTP Servers Brian Johnson (Oct 28)
- Re: Outgoing SMTP Servers William Herrin (Oct 28)
- Re: Outgoing SMTP Servers Mike Jones (Oct 28)
- Re: Outgoing SMTP Servers Brian Johnson (Oct 28)