[extropy-chat] The end of Exilist in sight?

[Eugen Leitl]

On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 11:21:48AM -0800, Adrian Tymes wrote:

> It's a well-established facet of email lists that, if
> you don't want to be on the list, there are clear and
> trustworthy ways of unsubscribing.  (The lack of

It's a well-established fact that there are always quite
a few idiots who submit mailservers to RBLs. And,
guess what, some even do it on purpose.

> trustworthy methods - specifically, even if they
> offer "unsubscription" services, they smell of traps
> to confirm your email so as to resell it at higher
> value as a known live address - is one of the
> distinguishing facets of spammers.  Part of the
> smell is the exclusively commercial aspect of their
> messages...and this list's messages are not
> exclusively commercial.)

It doesn't matter. Spam is a complex problem, there
are no single simple solutions to it which work
every time.

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