On Sun, 09 Mar 2003 20:16:46 EST, Erez Zadok said:
is "what I don't want to see" isn't precise enough in my opinion. And I
have a feeling that many people have different notions for what they
consider spam (UCE, XXX, emails from my ex ...)
Yes, I'd probably be surprised to receive mail from your ex. And if it was
UCE XXX mail from your ex, I'd say "joe job". ;)
However, that *does* bring up an important - I currently get almost as much "I
saw your name on XYZ list and was wondering if you knew..." mail as I do spam.
Fortunately for my work load, the vast majority of these are FAQs that I can
answer with a canned note - "can I use your NTP server?" and "how do I get
LSOFT's code to...." seem to be popular. ;)
We need to make sure that we don't make any "prove you're a human" solutions
*too* difficult, as the general clue level out there is pretty low. Remember
that a solution doesn't have to work just for me, Keith, and Vernon, it has to
be something that we can deploy to my mom (who doesn't mind being used as a
generic user - she's in her 60s, has had one stroke already, and will NOT be
able to manage getting anything fixed if either Earthlink or Hotmail change the
way they do things unless either I or my brother stop by to do it for her).
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