I wouldn't say it is another way of letting them win.  In their minds, the 
only thing that counts is how much money did they make off their spam. 

But the major damage of spam is the reduction in usefulness of email as a 
communications tool.  And excessive false blocking certainly increases 
that damage.  Nobody wins then, not even the spammers.  If you give up on 
email, they don't have any way to reach you and their have to go back to 
legitimate jobs.

---

"Solving the spam problem is like curing cancer. It's not one disease but 
100 diseases, each with their own issues."  -- John Levine co-chairman of 
the independent Antispam Research Group, part of the Internet Engineering 
Task Force.


William Brown
Messaging/Filtering Services
Technology Services, WNYRIC, Erie 1 BOCES


"LISTSERV list owners' forum" <[log in to unmask]> wrote on 
08/03/2005 05:10:11 PM:

> What a great analogy!  I agree; to cast too wide a net when trying to 
block
> spam is yet another way of letting them win.
>