On Sun, 21 Jan 2007 13:23:58 +0530, Dinesh Joshi dinesh.a.joshi@gmail.com said:
On Sat, 2007-01-20 at 14:36 -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
[srivasta@acm.org; srivasta@ieee.org, srivasta@computer.org, srivasta@golden-gryphon.com]
Heh. SO it is not my MUA that is broken, but some strange phobia about letting ones email loose. I guess I am too used to real world mailing lists, like lkml, debian, and the fsf, to think it could be a quaint little reason like this.
Strange phobia? 75% of the worlds email is spam. Wow that is a phobia, isn't it :) Oh and is this a virtual world mailing list? :P Maybe this list is just too below your standards. I'm sorry, we couldn't meet your 'real world' standards.
Attempting to hide your email away is like security through obscurity: it is a losing battle. I get between 1200-2000 messages a day, and am subscribed to wide open debian and fsf mailing lists, and yet I have not seen a Spam message in about a month -- so Spam detection and scrubbing can indeed be done.
So no, your approach is not only not the only one possible, it is, in my opinion, inferior to setting up a proper Spam fighting mechanism.
BTW, I would be happy to share my experience with the list; I'm in the middle of writing a series of blog articles showing how to replicate my results; if that would be of interest to people.
I'll consider it. Really, tell me, what in his behaviour towards me leads you to think I should grant him the favour of this concession?
Uh...right...haha...
At some point, you'll learn that you can get more done with honey than with vinegar. You never once said the magic words.
manoj