Re: What changes would you make to stop spam? - United Nations Paper

[James Butler <ja...@musicforhumans.com>]

LOL! Thanks for the reminder. Best of luck in your efforts to "stop SPAM" around the world.

Sincerest regards,

James Butler
Chairman, Board of Directors
Internet Society - Los Angeles Chapter
California, USA


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On 8/1/06 at 11:29 PM jdow wrote:

>Mr Butler, with all due respect go pound sand. You've convinced me that
>we should kick the UN out of the United States so that idiots like you
>do not spam mailing lists like this.
>
>You're an fscking idiot.
>{`,'}
>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "James" <ja...@musicforhumans.com>
>To: <us...@spamassassin.apache.org>
>Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2006 21:05
>Subject: Re: What changes would you make to stop spam? - United Nations
>Paper
>
>
>>A little bit sorry for the top-post ... but .. Re: Kofi Annan's quote 
>> from the post dated today at around 6:20 PM PST:
>> 
>> "The problem has risen to a level requiring that the United Nations be 
>> aware of the issue and to take steps to address the problem.*"*
>> 
>> I simply do not agree. The U.N. has far more important and pressing 
>> issues to deal with than SPAM, which is essentially a corporate 
>> productivity problem.
>> 
>> Consider: Oh, geez, the hundreds of truly consequential issues facing a 
>> global assembly of governments in today's world.
>> 
>> Compare that with (from my own example) the several hundreds of SPAM 
>> message I filter for my staff, each day. Ok ... after a weekend off, 
>> it's somewhere areound 1,500 SPAM message ... regardless, with a tiny 
>> bit of traning, any human can be trained to quickly scan the company 
>> queue and remove any of today's SPAM from the company inboxes.
>> 
>> While I agree that even that is too much for a small business to be 
>> satisfied with (it certainly won't make the company go broke), it's 
>> simply not that great an issue, when compared to world-affecting issues 
>> like Poverty and whatnot.
>> 
>> I say "good luck" with your proposal but NOT "good luck" getting the 
>> money you want to get from the U.N. to be put toward "solving" this 
>> problem. It's simply not an issue I believe we should be spending any 
>> portion of that particular budget for.
>> 
>> Sincerest regards,
>> 
>> James Butler
>> Chairman, Board of Directors
>> Internet Society - Los Angeles Chapter
>> California, USA
>> 
>> John Rudd wrote:
>> 
>>>
>>> On Aug 1, 2006, at 6:54 PM, John D. Hardin wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Tue, 1 Aug 2006, jdow wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> From: "Marc Perkel" <ma...@perkel.com>
>>>>>
>>>>>>      Allowing IMAP/POP to Send Email
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Nonsense.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ...is there an echo in here? ;)
>>>>
>>>
>>> Having also said the same thing ... Doesn't part of Microsoft's 
>>> extension to IMAP (called MAPI, oh so original) also support sending 
>>> via IMAP?
>>