On Tuesday 10 September 2002 13:15, Greg A. Woods wrote:
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>Spam is not a sacrifice I'm willing to make to freely help out
> other users of any free software, nor even to get free help for
> software I use.

Sorry, you just pulled this old mans trigger.

Its a fact of life these days, and one sets up filtering accordingly
using whatever facilities are available on ones own platform.  If 
that offends you, I suggest you go back to postage stamps cause its 
not gonna go away.  Not unless we want to pony up the license fee 
for something like Declude, which my ISP uses to filter viri, and 
to label those messages that are potentially spam because the 
reverse dns don't check out, or the headers are somehow bogus.  I 
haven't asked, but I'd expect that bit of winderz software set them 
back 2k to 10k dollars.  Should we start a collection for the 
amanda.org server?  Not when there are such things as filters in 
kmail, or spamasassin.

I'm not normally this grouchy an old f--t, but if you want to play 
in this sandbox (internet communications), then one should learn to 
make use of the tools that are available, or go get your own 
sandbox.

I help as much as I can here because its a good program and project, 
and the authors don't always have time to hand-hold all the 
newbies.  They did me, extensively, and now I'm returning the favor 
where I can, and I'm not squawking about the 2 spams a day that get 
thru.  Its certainly not worth the typing wear and tear on these 
old (67+) arthritic fingers to bitch about something I can handle 
in my own way by packing it up and sending it to uce AT ftc DOT gov once 
or twice a day.  Like occasionally sweeping up, its part of the 
housekeeping on the internet floor.

Now, lets get this list back on topic, which is amanda support and 
education.

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Cheers, Gene
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