[Gllug] OSS Spam filtering, virus scanning email solutions

[John G Walker]

On Wed, 3 Jan 2007 23:30:11 +0000 (GMT) Chris Bell
<chrisbell at overview.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>  Are you really unable to appreciate that the journalists may not
> have any other option than to send mail from wherever they are
> working? It may not be a known address, just the best under the
> circumstances. I have not been a news reporter, but I have worked as
> member of a team getting short notice live programmes, and I have
> been to places in this country where we have needed to beg facilities
> from anyone nearby to get the programmes back on time. We had
> fly-away kit for people sent out to the other side of the world, but
> even that could not always be relied on, depending on the terrain or
> location.

Perfectly able to appreciate the conditions journalists may have to
work under. But I ask again: what has this to do with me
pointing out the use of spam blockers as an anti-spam  strategy merely
blocks the users in question from getting the emails they want.

Or do you believe that, in some strange way, blocking the reports makes
the journalists job easier?

-- 
 All the best,
 John
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