Mail Archives: djgpp/1998/01/30/00:45:47
On Thu, 29 Jan 1998 19:47:55 -0800 (PST), Nate Eldredge
<eldredge AT ap DOT net> wrote:
>At 08:29 1/29/1998 GMT, kifox wrote:
>>Guys, you're getting worked up for no reason. Anti-spam/fake email-address
>>are here to stay. Moaning about the technical issues aren't going to do you
>>a bit of good,because most of the people who use these addresses don't
>>really care about them. They're not getting spam in their mailboxes for the
>>most part and that's all that really matters to them.
>That's fine. My point here is that faking one's email address and getting
>help on this newsgroup are mutually exclusive goals. If somebody wants help
>with something, and that's the subject of most of the postings here, it is
>counterproductive to make things difficult for those who would help. This is
>what I try to point out when I do reply to anti-spammed messages.
>If somebody wants to be rude and fake their address, that's their
>prerogative. It is also *my* prerogative, and that of other repliers, to
>ignore such postings as I would any other spam. It so happens that I
>currently have the patience to reply to those people anyway, but in the
>future I may get sick of it and add them to my killfile. That will hurt only
>them. This is the purpose of the warnings with which I and others "waste our
>time". If someone wishes to have further questions here answered, it
>behooves them to make things easy for answerers.
>
>>Just relax and learn to live with it. Nothing going to change for the most
>>part.
>That's one option, sure. The other is to refuse to help people who use
>anti-spam schemes. This would hurt DJGPP's reputation for support, but if it
>makes life easier for me, I must consider it.
>
>Nate Eldredge
>eldredge AT ap DOT net
>
>
Well if you guys feel this strongly about it then, I will show my real
hotmaill address here. I made the change and gripinc AT hotmail DOT com is my
real hotmail address. I'd rather have support and be annoyed by spam,
than no spam, and no support. I hope this is enough...
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