At 05:49 AM 10/8/2009, Olin Lathrop wrote:
>Dwayne Reid wrote:
> > Its not perfect, by any means.  I still have to have a quick look at
> > the headers of perhaps 100 messages per day to make sure that I'm not
> > about to toss legitimate email.
>
>How's that better than letting all the messages thru and deleting the spam
>in the mailer.  It sounds like it takes me about the same amount of time to
>do that.  It's less than a second per message, but the annoyance is rather
>more than the actual time spent.

I guess it depends how you have your email package set up.  Many 
people have a preview pane that shows a list of all of the messages, 
one per line.  I don't.

But the real reason that Mailwasher Pro works so well for me is that 
those messages I mark as Spam get added to my blacklist.  That means 
that I deal with them only once.

Again, many email packages have similar capability.  Its just harder 
to get to.  Because Mailwasher is specifically designed to make 
marking Spam messages easily, the check boxes for blacklisting and 
deleting are right up front.  Its just easier.

> >> It's NOT a good idea to replace the From: address, as that's often
> >> the only clue to who actually sent a message. Some people are very
> >> lax about signing their messages.
> >
> > I feel strongly about this as well - the From: address is how I
> > contact people when I want to chat privately.
>
>You act as if you have some right to do that.  What about the other person's
>right not to receive your messages?  It should be their call, not yours.

Indeed, it IS their right.  However, you want to make the decision 
for everybody to NOT allow that to be possible.  How is that any better?

 From what the Admins say, its an "all or nothing" situation.

Dave Tweed has decided that the only email he will accept from the 
email address he uses for the PIClist is those messages that 
originate from the MIT server.  That's his right.

dwayne

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Trinity Electronics Systems Ltd    Edmonton, AB, CANADA
(780) 489-3199 voice          (780) 487-6397 fax
www.trinity-electronics.com
Custom Electronics Design and Manufacturing

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