Mail Archives: cygwin/2001/07/22/22:52:23
On Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 05:56:35PM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote:
>In the past, cygwin used ORBS. But now we can't.
We do use the ORBS replacements that have cropped up but they don't seem
to be as effective as ORBS.
>Thus the increase in spam. However, I haven't noticed multiple spams
>from the same address (unless the multiples come VERY close together)
>-- so I assume that someone -- probably cgf -- is manually blocking
>each spammer. Perhaps not.
Yep. I block every spam I see. In fact, if I see spam in binutils, I
block it there and in many other mailing lists, including cygwin. So,
the cgf spam coverage should be pretty good.
However, when I am on vacation or away from the computer (a regrettably
rare event) you may see some spam flitting by.
I would suggest that the best response to spam is to send email to the
*proper* place, i.e. the originating site. Sending a "why doesn't
someone do something about this" response is just, as Chuck says, adding
to the annoyance.
The only thing that I hate more than spam itself is the responses to
spam. It's like yelling at someone in the library because they were
talking too loudly.
cgf
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