[Gllug] Gllug changing

[Mark Lowes]

On Thu, 2002-05-16 at 12:12, Formi wrote:
> 
> 
>  I was talking about those that might do it at personal client level.

Errr... so was I (mostly)

To summarise what I was trying to get across

Blocking emails / posters / threads at the client level isn't a problem
and should be accepted, blocking elsewhere needs to be purely to prevent
the abuse of the medium (not abuse on the medium).

> > The only blocking of emails I would condone (apart from spam filtering
> > (must turn that on again)) is filtering on the client machine based on
> > personal preferences.  No different to a usenet killfile, it only
> > affects the person who decides not to read certain posters or threads. 
> > I only filter out to junk emails on mailing lists on a rare basis simply
> > because it's more hassle than it's worth going to edit the procmailrc,
> > though if I reach the level where I'm going to do that the filter stays
> > there pretty much forever.

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