Re: spam was Re: default

I feel it's unfortunate that you feel the need to take such an imperious and petulant attitude towards this issue, as I've enjoyed your feedback in this group. I personally prefer a response to the newsgroup anyway, because often other people have helpful comments on the reply. Not Spam-blocking my email is not an option for me. Anytime I post to the net with my real email, I get flooded with annoying junk email. I feel it's a moot issue: one posts to a newsgroup - expect a reply by newsgroup. Jonathan Leffler wrote: > With this news group at least, I hardly ever read it with a news > reader. > The mailing list gateway run so ably by Walt Hultgren (thanks, Walt!) > sends > me the news by email. Consequently, I reply to messages by email. If > the > poster's address is anti-spammed, then I get a bounced email. That's > more > irritating than spam, so if I spot that the address is incorrect > (typically > because it has a weird informix.com domain address by the time it's > got > through our internal mail system, or occasionally because it has an > rmy.emory.edu domain), I don't even bother to answer, even when > there's > something I would otherwise say. > > If someone asks for a reply by email, I send it to them, but I also > post it > to the news group (via email) -- unless there's a reason why I think I > > should take my answer offline immediately. But that's how I reply to > any > posting anyway. It irritates me intensely when someone's emailer > doesn't > manage to put the correct return address in place (though that it is > often > not their fault). It's even worse when the misdirection is > deliberate. I > decline to respond to messages where the return address is > anti-spammed. > > Yours, > Jonathan Leffler (johnl@informix.com) #include <disclaimer.h> > PS: I decline to respond to messages with anti-spam in the return > path. -- * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ADDRESS ALTERED TO FOIL SPAMMERS: Remove "*NO-SPAM*" to reply. Cosmo Lee Multi-User Computer Systems Brooklyn, NY email: cosmo@echonyc.com "JUST SAY 'NO' TO SPAM" * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *