Re: spam was Re: default

On Wed, 9 Jul 1997, David Williams wrote: > In article <5pve07$64h@cssun.mathcs.emory.edu>, Billy Wheeler > <billy@west.co.za> writes > >someone asking for advice who then makes it difficult to respond to > >them. If someone is asking for help it's "rude" to make it difficult > >for people to help you. And yes, I get truckloads of spam as well. > > But what really annoys me is when someone asks for a reply by e-mail, > I hit reply compose a long message and then it gets bounced back to > me "host unknown". I give up trying to help at that point. However, in newsgroups the typical (and expected) response is a reply to the group in general. A spamblock email address in no way defeats this, and its easier than recieving replies to questions twice (once in c.d.i, and once in email). I should also say that since I threw the .REMOVE at the end of my address, the spam died down over about two weeks and has now completely stopped. A very nice change. Procmail was trying to filter it all, but kept letting bits through. -Richard