[NCLUG] mmmmmmm...spam control

[Evelyn Mitchell]

* On 2002-02-19 19:26 Mike Loseke <mike at verinet.com> wrote:
> Thus spake Evelyn Mitchell:
> > 
> > * On 2002-02-19 18:46 bmc <brettcrandall at hotmail.com> wrote:
> > > 
> > > One tool for Linux, known as Tagged Message Delivery Agent (TMDA), takes
> > > the opposite tactic and uses a "whitelist" approach. Instead of allowing
> > 
> > I've resisted moving to a whitelist approach because I get a lot of
> > new contact emails for business. I haven't noticed any other businesses
> > I contact using this approach, and I suspect that it would be offputting
> > to new clients.
> > 
> > What do you all think? Would you consider it rude or inconvenient to
> > have to reply to a whitelist message? Several major linux names use
> > them now, and I don't mind if its going to a "I get way too much mail
> > because I'm well known" person. 
> 
>  My main problem with this is that it says that spam is ok and that I'll
> just go through the extra effort to only accept email from people I like
> or know will send me email.

Well, that's a big part of the reason I don't 'whitelist' my email
correspondants.

I have noticed that most of the spam I receive arrives between 8pm and
6am, and quarantining that would help a lot.

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