[geeks] ADMINISTRIVIA: Changes to mail delivery policies

[Greg A. Woods]

[ On Thursday, March 14, 2002 at 14:34:33 (-0600), Amy wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: [geeks] ADMINISTRIVIA: Changes to mail delivery policies
>
> then explain why bill has been happier since he instituted such a thing,
> cleaned his room since he instituted this whole thing, and spent more
> extra special quality time with me since he instituted this thing.

I think I did that already, but here goes again from a different angle:

Bill made a number of changes to his mail server configuration.  One of
them has so far reduced the amount of a certainly type crap he has to
deal with.  The other will not do anything at all to stop one of the
worst other types of crap he has complained about.  Not all types of
crap hit the fan at the same time or from the same direction.

While I do care in some way for the other people who make use of Bill's
generous services, what I'm really worried about is that eventually a
worse type of crap is going to hit the fan and fling itself directly at
Bill in such a way that he gets extremely pissed off about something not
working the way he wanted it to work.  Then all kinds of crap are going
to hit the fan from all kinds of directions and we're all going to get a
little of it right in the eye.

What I've been trying to tell him (and anyone else who's listening!) is
that he hasn't done what he thinks he has done (at least not nearly so
effectively in one particular issue) and that not only is he eventually
going to get crapped on again by somebody else's mailer in exactly the
same way as he complained about originally (because what he did will
have no effect whatsoever in stopping that type of crap), but what he
has done has also reduced the reliability of his mail server and thus
potentially made him the target of even new types of crap.

Since we all enjoy the benefits of Bill's generous sharing of his (and
your!) resources, we would like to keep the crap from hitting the fan as
much as possible.  (That probably applies ten or a hundred or a thousand
times more for users of some of the less chatty/noisy/crappy lists like
this one, and they're more likely to be the ones who might complain than
we are!  :-)

(now hopefully I haven't sprinkled too much technical crap in there!)

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