[OT (slightly) ] Re: Please confirm your message

[Sarah Reichelt]

On 6/21/06, Alex Tweedly <alex at tweedly.net> wrote:
> Every time I send a message to the use-rev list, I get an email such as
> the one below. It's from a list member who hasn't had the good grace to
> set up his spam filters to accept mail from the list that he (or she)
> joined. Seems to me it's kind of impolite to join a list and then expect
> every other contributor to take extra action to accommodate your spam
> filters.
>
> I haven't yet taken the action suggested, and in fact, I'm not ever
> going to take it, because it violates my idea of how things "should"
> work, so pretty soon, I'll get around to blacklisting "MAILER-DAEMON at his
> domain"  in my filters so I don't see these messages.
>
> Am I the only grumpy old man who doesn't like this ?


Well I am not a man and I don't consider myself very old, but it
certainly makes me grumpy. I also find it ironic that this person's
attempts to block spam all end up in my spam folder and that is where
they stay. I have no intention of clicking on an unknown link in an
email from an unknown person and I would strongly discourage anyone
else from doing so.

This is a voluntary list and if someone can't organise to get the
emails without this sort of performance, then they should unsubscribe.
There are plenty of free email solutions that this person could use to
set up a rev-list email address that would avoid this.

Grumpily yours,
Sarah
:-)