Re: setting up lax security on one ethernet interface while leaving the other strict

On Mon, 29 Sep 2008 13:38:34 -0700 (PDT), David Schwartz <davids@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Sep 29, 1:02 pm, ibupro...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Moe Trin) wrote:

Ah, so in your world, a post that doesn't go to every news server is
"not seen".

Twisting the meaning rather hard, aren't you? The note I include says
that it REDUCES THE CHANCE of a post being seen.

And yet, every such post is in fact seen.

Do you feel that if
a news server doesn't carry any posts from group.google.com, or the
fairly well documented (posted in newsgroups - such as
news.software.readers) evidence that some people really do block,
delete, or filter posts simply can't be true?  And therefore filters
must not exist.  How do you know this is or is not the case?

Actually, from anecdotal evidence, I think it's not true. I see people
who claim they filter out all posts from google responding to posts
from google. I'm sure there actually are some servers and some readers
who filter such posts, but I have no idea what the number is. Do you
have any idea?

The only evidence I have suggests that it's very, very small. If you
have contrary evidence, please share.

But again, the anecdotal evidence I have is that people who claim to
filter such posts always see them.

Nah, what we who filter do see is the first non-google reply to such
a message, and none of that leakage has convinced me I'm missing any
traffic worth reading ;)

Grant.
--
http://bugsplatter.id.au:8080/ dodo, for internet that dies
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