On Thu, 12 Sep 2002, Professional Software Engineering wrote:
PSE> At 22:49 2002-09-12 +0100, Alan Clifford wrote:
PSE>
PSE> >I will simply not tolerate this kind of behaviour by people who think
PSE> >that, because I have made an email address public, they can email all
PSE> >sorts of junk to me. Now email sent to my usenet addresses don't even
PSE> >reach my mailboxes - they are just deleted so I don't have to download
PSE> >them.
PSE>
PSE> I set up a host in DNS (actually, more than one), called lutefisk. When I
PSE> post to usenet (which isn't frequent these days), I post with a simple "to
PSE> email, replace lutefisk with mail". That really isn't too demanding of
PSE> anyone who needs to send an email reply (considering that, just as with
PSE> lists, I prefer to participate on the forum itself, not privately via
PSE> email), since the normal mode of "reply" on usenet is to post a followup
PSE> article to the newsgroup.
PSE>
I probably made a mistake with sardines(_at_)purse-seine,net. I should have
set up fishy-mail . purse-seine . net and dumped the lot. Too late now
but at least all the sardines are canned.
Alan
( Please do not email me AS WELL as replying to the list. Personal
email is welcome but may invoke a password autoresponder. )
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