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polytarp
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Disgusting
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Feb 24 02:42 UTC 2003 |
Mr Eric Bassey has a "spam" filter, which is apparently barring important
communications from reaching him. This is, of course, unbelievable.
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other
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response 1 of 22:
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Feb 24 02:50 UTC 2003 |
You are an unbelievable pissant. And calling ANYTHING you have to say an
"important communication" is equivalent to calling a shitspeck on the
belly of a maggot "the largest man-made structure in history."
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polytarp
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response 2 of 22:
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Feb 24 03:04 UTC 2003 |
It is uniquely improper for you to automatically ignore official
communications.
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styles
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response 3 of 22:
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Feb 24 04:47 UTC 2003 |
i feel a *tantamount* coming on.
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tsty
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response 4 of 22:
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Feb 24 08:24 UTC 2003 |
yeh, tantamount to intelligence .....
,
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remmers
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response 5 of 22:
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Feb 24 12:44 UTC 2003 |
In case Coop's hordes of readers are wondering what the heck this
is about -- Eric forwards all mail to his other@cyberspace.org
account to uce@cyberspace.org, the place where people are supposed
to send spam that they get. If one gets a lot of spam at one's
cyberspace.org account, it does insure that you never see it and
the right person does, the downside being that the uce account
also gets non-spam, a potential headache for the uce administrator.
So while Eric's forwarding arrangement has never struck me as an
ideal spam solution, it doesn't prevent "important communications"
from reaching him. He's on the Grex board, which has its own mailing
list to which messages for the board's attention should be sent
(board@cyberspace.org), and I'm sure that list is set up to
forward to Eric's offsite email address. That address is no
secret and is in Eric's .plan, so he's definitely reachable via
email.
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davel
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response 6 of 22:
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Feb 24 12:50 UTC 2003 |
Hm. Thanks, John. I'd jumped to the conclusion that Eric was merely doing
something intelligent, such as filtering out all mail from polytarp.
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janc
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response 7 of 22:
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Feb 24 13:42 UTC 2003 |
I suggest the board should entertain a resolution to the effect that
Eric should direct his email to /dev/null instead of uce. Sending to
uce is just obnoxious.
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mynxcat
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response 8 of 22:
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Feb 24 15:43 UTC 2003 |
It's amazing how people take polytarp so seriously. Usually the best way is
to read his post and respond with a "Hahahahhaha - that was so funny,
polytarp".
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remmers
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response 9 of 22:
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Feb 24 16:57 UTC 2003 |
If that's the best response I can come up with to something, I don't
respond at all. If I can separate out some wheat from the chaff,
then I may respond to that.
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mynxcat
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response 10 of 22:
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Feb 24 17:03 UTC 2003 |
Right - then don't respond. By responding and taking him seriously, people
are just feeing his joke that he thinks grex and mnet are.
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remmers
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response 11 of 22:
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Feb 24 17:07 UTC 2003 |
Like I said in #9, I'll respond to any "wheat" I find, as I did in #5.
I will never reject a statement purely on the basis of who made it.
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other
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response 12 of 22:
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Feb 24 17:52 UTC 2003 |
#5 and #6 are both correct.
As for my forwarding to uce. I decided to do that only because I never
actually use my grex email for anything any more, and the only mail I
received there for months was spam. Since uce@ collects spam for Marcus
to sift through in order to improve the spam filters, I thought
forwarding there was a better choice than /dev/null.
Is this not still the case?
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slynne
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response 13 of 22:
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Feb 24 22:14 UTC 2003 |
uh oh - I have noticed that remmers doesnt aways respond to what I say.
I wonder what that means..... ;)
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russ
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response 14 of 22:
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Feb 24 22:33 UTC 2003 |
Sometimes I'm tempted to tweak my twit filter so that it whacks
item bodies as well as responses, but the occasional chuckle
like this usually keeps me from considering it too hard.
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mary
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response 15 of 22:
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Feb 24 22:44 UTC 2003 |
The wheat and chaff thing is very kind. It gives people the
benefit of the doubt. I tend to ignore posters who have shown
they aren't worth reading. Not nice, but true.
I suppose I take a chance on missing a rare interesting
comment. Life is full of risks. ;-)
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remmers
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response 16 of 22:
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Feb 25 00:28 UTC 2003 |
I said I never reject a statement based on who said it. I
din't say that I always read every statement that everybody makes.
:) I tend to skip over posters who've established that they aren't
worth reading too, but if it's a short response, I might read it
anyway. That is, I'll only do the wheat from chaff thing if it
doesn't take much work on my part.
Re #12: I guess it's Marcus's call whether forwarding to uce is
a good idea or not, since he's the person who sifts through the
stuff. I'm sure that you get some mail that isn't "unsolicited
commercial email", so I'm curious whether have non-uce mail go to
uce makes his job harder to do.
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mdw
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response 17 of 22:
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Feb 25 03:44 UTC 2003 |
I don't have anything automatic to look at "uce@", and given the nature
of material submitted to it, I don't expect I ever will. So no, small
amounts of ham aren't going to be a big problem. Just don't expect me
to do anything intelligent with it.
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mynxcat
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response 18 of 22:
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Feb 25 14:47 UTC 2003 |
I usually skip the really long posts.
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naftee
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response 19 of 22:
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Mar 16 03:07 UTC 2003 |
All posts on grex are really long.
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davel
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response 20 of 22:
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Mar 16 20:51 UTC 2003 |
Including yours?
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naftee
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response 21 of 22:
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Mar 17 01:26 UTC 2003 |
I don't post, I respond!
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tsty
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response 22 of 22:
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Mar 17 10:37 UTC 2003 |
if there were an automagic filter that mdw could employ, ther4e are
a few key words that could be implemented.
mdw, have you considered any filters for incomming email - based
on Subject: ?
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