I was happy to see Kary's rant on anti-spam fanaticism.  I used to be
one myself, till one day our local spam policeman said to me, "Well,
Russ, is it really such a big problem?  Compare it to hard spam --
junk mail -- which you actually have to pick up, take to the recycle
bin, get to the recycyler, and which pollutes the environment as it's
created and as it's destroyed.  With electronic junk mail, you hit
<delete> and that's it."

He's right, you know.  Even without considering this:

> I believe too many ISP's have allowed spammers to drive them into
> sleeping with the devil; I know that the problems this site
> experiences due to bogus spam filters (eg: null return-path) and
> blacklisting "mistakes" are orders of magnitude worse than any
> service impairments caused by spammers.

                                  -- Russ
                                __|~_
Russell A. Hunt            __|~_)_ __)_|~_    Professor of English
St. Thomas University      )_ __)_|_)__ __)  PHONE: (506) 452-0424
Fredericton, New Brunswick   |  )____) |       FAX: (506) 450-9615
E3B 5G3   CANADA          ___|____|____|____/    [log in to unmask]
                          \                /
      ~~~~~~~~~~~~ http://www.StThomasU.ca/~hunt/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~