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Re: This is ridiculous


  • Subject: Re: This is ridiculous
  • From: Dave Balderstone <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 19:34:45 -0600

On Oct 12, 2004, at 3:50 PM, Chris Espinosa wrote:

There may come a day when that person has the answer to the question you're asking, but will never see it. You may then weigh the value of your right to express yourself however you like against the value of getting your questions answered from the list.

I choose to dump the bounce notices and the whitelist service notices directly to dev/null. Never see them, and I don't care. In fact, there are couple of people on a couple of mailing lists I'm subbed to that never appear in my incoming mail.


I also don't worry about who may or may not have me killfiled on usenet, for instance, nor do I worry that someone in my killfile may actually post something useful from time to time.

If the recipient of a post of mine to any list or forum is not willing (or perhaps able, but that's not my problem either) to open up their incoming mail to read what may be of value to them, it doesn't concern me.

There are many, many sources of information available today on many, many topics. A single user, or indeed list or newsgroup, is simply not essential. The odds that an individual behind an over-enthusiastic mail scanning server or firewall may be the sole source of a solution to a problem I may have at some point in the future is so small that it approaches zero.

djb

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 >Re: This is ridiculous (From: Martin Orpen <email@hidden>)
 >Re: This is ridiculous (From: Chris Espinosa <email@hidden>)

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