[KLUG Members] Emails and an Apology

[Jason Edward Durrett]

On Mar 3, 2007, at 1:07 PM, greenproc wrote:

> Mark Jones wrote:
>> To All Members of KLUG,
>>
>> I offer an apology if I have not responded to any emails sent to me 
>> during the last 3 months.  For the last year, many of you know that 
>> we were fighting a severe spam infestation.  Bob has done a wonderful 
>> job of eliminating that spam going through KLUG's servers.
>
> My ISP has done a wonderful job of effectively blocking email sent to 
> and from me, and there's little I can do about it.
> They absolutely refuse to turn off spam blocking for my account.
>
> Mark, consider yourself lucky.  At least your GETTING the email in 
> question, instead of your ISP silently blocking
> important communications to or from you.
>
> I only wish I had a big 'ol mess of junk to sort through, it would be 
> MUCH better than not having the communication at all.
>

You bring up a very interesting point here about the ethics of 
filtering/blocking email communications.  An organization, which by 
definition can not think or feel or even act rationally, deciding what 
mail is good or bad is a scary thing.  I would hate for my mailman to 
start throwing letters into the snow because he thinks they are not 
proper.

I have also had problems with people using charter at home sending 
messages back to the office from their home networks.  Those problems 
are fixed by using tunnels . . . but I think that a serious rethink is 
in line for the power being given, by the consumer, to ISPs for 
blocking spam.