| Branden Robinson 2004-09-30, 10:47 am |
| On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 10:04:40PM +1000, Andrew Pollock wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 08:53:27AM +1000, Russell Coker wrote:
>
> Amen, brother.
I reject this exhortation utterly.
I'm not going to change my practices for your sake, so if you ever need a
private reply from me regarding something, you'll just have to cope with
the consequences. I respect the right of individuals to /dev/null my mails
for any reason they choose, be it the content, the originating IP address,
or what-have-you. But I will not aid you in your endeavor to pretend these
blacklists cause no collateral damage by trashing non-spam mails addressed
to third parties who have no control over their (ISP's) mail server's
configuration.
The attitude of reckless blacklisters like yourself reminds me of the old
saw about how to be a corrupt scientist: "If the data don't fit the curve,
fake it."
I will not be pushed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered.
And I most certainly will not voluntarily hand over my outbound emails to
the tender mercies of my monopolistic ISP's mail hub.
If they want to collate and scan my mails, they'll just have to do it the
good old-fashioned underhanded way, which is sure to be blessed soon by the
Fascist laws of my contry if it hasn't been already.
The least they can do in the process is drop the pretense and intercept my
outbound mails entirely, retransmitting them from one of your beloved
non-blacklisted bureaucratic addresses.
Until that day, I will maintain responsibility for my own SMTP
transactions.
--
G. Branden Robinson | Judging developers by the number of
Debian GNU/Linux | changes they make is like judging a
branden@debian.org | legislature by the number of laws
http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | it passes. -- Karl Fogel
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