[svlug] Mailing List Archive and Spam

[kmself@ix.netcom.com]

on Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 03:04:36PM -0800, Derek J. Balling (dredd at megacity.org) wrote:
> >Worse is that several ISPs (msn.com, possibly @home.com) don't accept
> >attachments (gee:  it's a feature in your end-user software...), which
> >is my default forward mode.  I'm inclined to blackhole their whole
> >fscking DNS....
> 
> You'd be willing to blackhole someone because they have a mail server that
> is locked down against attachments, which most people agree are a blight on
> the face of e-mail communications?

Attachments aren't a blight.  Mishandling and misusing attachments is.

This mail you're reading is nothing _but_ two MIME-encoded attachments:
one text, one a GPG signature.  Am I a blight on the face of email
communication, humanity, or the Universe?

...wait.  Don't answer that.

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Karsten M. Self <kmself at ix.netcom.com>    http://kmself.home.netcom.com/
 What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand?       There is no K5 cabal
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