This is a private message for R P Herrold (please don't read it) -------------------------------------------------------- Sorry Russ, I cannot email you directly because: The original message was received at Sat, 26 Apr 2003 07:29:42 +0800 (CST) from 218-167-184-211.HINET-IP.hinet.net [218.167.184.211] ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors ----- <herrold@xxxxxxxxxxxx> ----- Transcript of session follows ----- ... while talking to mail.owlriver.com.: >>> RCPT To:<herrold@xxxxxxxxxxxx> <<< 553 5.3.0 <herrold@xxxxxxxxxxxx>... SPAMFRIEND 550 <herrold@xxxxxxxxxxxx>... User unknown ---------------------------------------------------------- It looks like the only way I can reach you is via Red Hat's mailing list. My reply to your earlier email follows: ---------------------------------------------------------- On Saturday 26 April 2003 03:25, you wrote: > ahhh -- a lurker surfaces. I lurk on most mailing lists, pity some of them won't let me post anything. All my mail to the Mandrake and Lunar mailing lists end up in /dev/null and I've had troubles with others. I am sure you recall that I wasn't able to send myself any email while DistroWatch was hosted at colug.net. Don't blame me for being sceptical, but the usefulness of email as a communication tool is getting severely limited - not just because of spammers, but also because of "clever" system administrators. Nowadays, if I get an enquiry from somebody who wants to advertise on DistroWatch, I'll type the reply on the local machine and then copy and paste it into mutt on the DistroWatch server (direct typing on a remote server is not much fun). That's the only way to make sure that the email actually reaches the customer. Having to resort to these kinds of workarounds is absolutely pathetic. > Last week, at one ISP I admin, I have over 70,000 such pieces > -- how about 70.000 times a week? >From my experience, about 95% of it can be easily blocked without the need to block entire domains or IP ranges. > Your posts are too important for me to miss. I am involved > with the www.dsbl.org project, along with Rik van Riel and Ian Is Rik still working for Conectiva? I've exchanged a few emails with him some time ago, but not recently. > maybe worth a distrowatch article. Check out this one: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/30340.html P.S: If you get the time to set up www.us.distrowatch.com (and other mirrors), I'd really appreciate it :-) Have a good weekend, Ladislav
