Re: Is it just me that is being picked on?

From: Alan Connor (alanconnor_at_earthlink.net)
Date: 09/20/03 

Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2003 07:31:16 GMT

On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 21:53:18 -0400, Jean-David Beyer <jdbeyer@exit109.com> wrote:
>
>
> Rod Smith wrote:
>> In article <TYLab.9486$UN4.2459@newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net>,
>> Alan Connor <alanconnor@earthlink.net> writes:
>>
>>>Who or what makes it possible for people to send me mail without MY
>>>address in the To: header?
>>
>>
>> The design of SMTP.
>>
> SMTP is like that so that you can put a mailing list into the Bcc:
> header and not divulge the peoples' addresses to one another. A nice
> feature, like automatically forwarding mail that hits your MTA that is
> destined elsewhere. The bastards ended that years ago. Now they will
> kill the Bcc: field. But it won't help. All the names will just go into
> the Cc: field and some stupid spammers do already.
>

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* ^Cc.*@.@|^Bcc.*@*@
| script_that sends a reminder not to send Cc'd mail without getting
  advance notice the first time and the second, then sends that kind of
  mail from that address everafter to /dev/null. A copy of the mail is
  not kept . The auoto response includes a list of "don't do's without
  prior notification, like sending files over 10k and sending non-text
  files, or HTML, etc.

I prefer to use ftp for non-letter files of any size. Email is for letters
and ftp is for magazines, newspapers, and books.

Http is a waste of the Internet, a commercial farce: No one "goes to a
website", they contact a computer and download files from it that are
interpreted by one's browser, right? Interactive websites are a weird cross
between ftp and irc (as a general category, a protocol) and email. It's
much more efficient to keep these things seperate. 

-- 
Later, Alan C
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