[Gllug] Spam

[Richard Turner]

On Sat, Oct 15, 2005 at 06:02:06PM +0100, Robert Newson declaimed:
> And what about the machine sending it to you: it has accepted the message 
> IN FULL before relaying onto you where you reject it at the header stage.  
> And the machine that accepted it before that; and the machine before that.  
> Or are you telling me that when I send an email, only the header makes the 
> full journey to the final machine which has to accept the message before 
> the smtp server I'm using sends the data of the email to the next hop?
> 

I've not been following the whole of this thread, but what's the point
you're trying to make here? That everyone has a duty to those
organisations that run mail routers to keep their email addresses as
private as possible, only given out to a select few people, in order to
save bandwidth and processing cycles between/on those machines?

Surely if that's the point you are making then people responsibe for all
this spam have effectively destroyed email as a communication medium...
I'd not noticed.

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