[linux-audio-user] Re: public apology and withdrawal

[tim hall]

Last Wednesday 30 March 2005 03:33, Larry Troxler was like:
> I always use my real email address on all the email lists I'm subsrcribed
> to, and also on usenet, and also on all web based message boards.

Me too.

> And yet, I at most I get about 20 unsolicited commercial emails per day,
> more typically only about 5 per day.

ditto.

> Again, since I seem to be the only one not worried about this problem, I
> wonder if I'm somehow missing valid emails. But I don't think so, because I
> haven't had any such complaints.

No, you're not the only one.

> So, what gives? What's the magical difference about my ISP that I don't
> have to make life difficult for other people by mangling my email address,
> and making them go through contortions to reply to me?

I don't know. My ISP uses spamassassin at source, so all the junk comes in 
nicely labelled. I can ignore / delete most of it. Personally I've never 
found the need to block any particular person, although I might use the 
'ignore thread' function in kmail just to cut out the discussions I'm not 
interested in. Some days I lose entire mornings just reading email. My 
choice, but it's much more of a problem than spam or individual attitudes.

Isn't this more of a problem for people who still use Windows?

cheers,

tim hall
http://glastonburymusic.org.uk