... Just a quick correction. We take privacy concerns extremely seriously and never disclose individual subscriber information to third parties. Any...
Mark Fletcher
markf@...
Jul 3, 2000 9:14 pm
10294
... [snip...] ... Too late. I've already been spammed. (And while I was composing *this* message, a message from the mailing list itself arrived. So far,...
Rich Kulawiec
rsk@...
Jul 3, 2000 9:30 pm
10295
Hi there, I came across a compelling reason to stick to text only mail over the weekend. I was up in Canada and could only access my e-mail via a bare telnet...
Istvan Berkeley
istvan@...
Jul 3, 2000 9:33 pm
10296
I figured folks on this list would appreciate this. We were spammed today. Laurie wandered out onto the porch this morning to find a flyer on the front porch,...
Chuq Von Rospach
chuqui@...
Jul 3, 2000 11:10 pm
10297
... IMO, this is no more compelling than arguing that because you found yourself stranded with only a model-33 TTY that WE SHOULD ALL GO BACK TO MONOCASE TEXT...
Bernie Cosell
bernie@...
Jul 4, 2000 12:55 am
10298
... Indeed, although an important difference to keep in mind is that that kind of spam dealt with in seconds with a keystroke or two [or even automatically in...
Bernie Cosell
bernie@...
Jul 4, 2000 1:07 am
10299
... That is not a correction. That is merely a statement to be believed or not to be believed. I take a precautionary approach on each and every so called...
Alan S. Harrell
ashandrr@...
Jul 4, 2000 1:50 am
10300
... Porch, huh? It chaps me to no end when they leave their litter pinched under our vehicle windshield wipers. That's when I feel really violated. Surely...
Alan S. Harrell
ashandrr@...
Jul 4, 2000 3:09 am
10301
... Heh heh -- I got to the bottom of Bernie's message distinctifying the two types of spam before I realized he was speaking of how the *recipient* needs to...
Mike Yuhas
mike@...
Jul 4, 2000 3:24 am
10302
... Hardcopy spam is self limiting. If I want to spam you with a hardcopy ad, it'll cost about fifty-cents to deliver the first page and a nickel a piece for...
murr rhame
murr@...
Jul 4, 2000 3:37 am
10303
... Unfortunately, no, and worse, the courts have made it perfectly clear that these people have a constitutional right to be in public places and make their...
Chuq Von Rospach
chuqui@...
Jul 4, 2000 4:49 am
10304
... And the sun could go nova tomorrow, so why worry? No offense, but this is a last resort argument with a basis only in absolute paranoia. If you took this...
Chuq Von Rospach
chuqui@...
Jul 4, 2000 5:03 am
10305
... Yes, the sun could very well go nova tomorrow. So then, you would advocate a "What me worry?" attitude? I take it then you don't use virus scanners or...
Alan S. Harrell
ashandrr@...
Jul 4, 2000 5:18 am
10306
... Nope. I protect myself against reasonable risks. But if someone says "I don't do that", and I have no reason to believe they lie, I don't put in...
Chuq Von Rospach
chuqui@...
Jul 4, 2000 6:46 am
10307
... I too often read mail over a text-only telnet connection. However, this doesn't preclude me from reading HTML mail or browsing the web. pine 4.x reads...
James Lick
jlick@...
Jul 4, 2000 10:05 am
10308
On 3 Jul 2000, 22:39, Chuq Von Rospach wrote: [Virus protection et al] ... Rationale, reason and experience has led me to my postulations on Internet Privacy....
Alan S. Harrell
ashandrr@...
Jul 4, 2000 1:32 pm
10309
... California is absolutely idiotic in that regard. Most other states have more sense. -- Russ Allbery (rra@...)...
Russ Allbery
rra@...
Jul 5, 2000 12:24 am
10310
... A couple of cities where I've lived had laws against placing flyers on car windshields. It's called littering. The feds get upset if anyone except the...
murr rhame
murr@...
Jul 5, 2000 3:05 am
10311
... I was actually talking about private property rights and the fact that supermarkets and the like can't kick panhandlers off their property and instead put...
Russ Allbery
rra@...
Jul 5, 2000 3:22 am
10312
... One of the joys of free speech is that it protects the stuff you don't like as well as the stuff you do. In fact, if it only had to protect the stuff...
Chuq Von Rospach
chuqui@...
Jul 5, 2000 4:34 am
10313
... I don't agree that freedom of speech implies the right to stand in front of the entrance of a store, on that store's private property, and harass everyone...
Russ Allbery
rra@...
Jul 5, 2000 4:52 am
10314
fiogured this was a lot more amusing than arguing over free speech, and even marginally on topic... Was going through the bounce mail on my lists tonight, and...
Chuq Von Rospach
chuqui@...
Jul 5, 2000 7:31 am
10315
... Yup. Freedom of speech is very important. Hard to justify kicking pampleters out of an otherwise public space as long as they are civil. Same applies to...
murr rhame
murr@...
Jul 5, 2000 2:51 pm
10316
... Sorry - missed the earlier part of this thread. Please remember that freedom of speech is something limited to certain countries. This does not include the...
Peter Galbavy
peter.galbavy@...
Jul 5, 2000 4:53 pm
10317
I received this piece of junque and I wonder why. Is there any chance that my lurker status on the MajorDomo list is the source for the spam? I have not even...
Douglas P. McNutt
dmcnutt@...
Jul 5, 2000 5:07 pm
10318
... I got it, too. it's spam, no matter what they say of opts and whatever. All that is camoflauge. -- Chuq Von Rospach - Plaidworks Consulting...
Chuq Von Rospach
chuqui@...
Jul 5, 2000 6:12 pm
10319
... They're famous spammers. It's almost certainly a coincidence that you run a mailing list. Regards, John Levine, postmaster@...,...
John R Levine
johnl@...
Jul 5, 2000 6:55 pm
10320
I recieved the same thing this morning.....Hmm -=Bob ... From: Douglas P. McNutt [mailto:dmcnutt@...] Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2000 12:14 PM To:...
Bob McCown
rmccown@...
Jul 5, 2000 8:13 pm
10321
... Does that mean that it should be impossible to transfer a list from other servers, for instance? Or that is should be impossible for an administrator to...
Roger B.A. Klorese
rogerk@...
Jul 5, 2000 9:52 pm
10322
... Roger Klorese (so much for my usual practice of using an initial to dis- tinguish one quotee from another when I include the text of more than one other...