On Sun, 3 Feb 2002, Brian Chase wrote:
Um, this idea
sucks. What if I don't use a mailer that supports
filtering?
The idea is only as bad as your mailer's ability to filter. Given that
your message-id shows that you're using Pine, I'd suggest enabling the
filtering within that mail program.
I don't mean "I" as in myself. I meant it figuratively, as in "What if
I
am a person that has a mailer that doesn't have filtering?"
allowed. You've got your opinion, other people
have theirs. I've seen
no convincing argument made by either side as to why their suggestion is
My opinion is logical. Yours isn't.
the one true way. Providing a mechanism which allows
people to choose
their options seems a lot less stupid than throwing a tantrum over
something you don't control.
Look, I don't care as long as whatever method that is arrived at does not
allow spam to be posted to the list. I can't tolerate that.
Otherwise, this whole damn mailing list can go to hell. It sucks all my
time anyway with the mostly noise content.
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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