🚀 go-pugleaf

On Thu, 28 Dec 2000 21:55:15 -0800, Derek Balling <dredd@megacity.org> wrote:
>On Thu, 28 Dec 2000 19:47:26 -0800, 123 wrote
>(in message <g42o4to09t6m24d3h83lu81cleup2155in@4ax.com>):
>
>> On Fri, 29 Dec 2000 03:18:10 GMT, plew@csus.edu (Paul Lew) wrote:
>> 
>>> I care and only found out about ORBS recently
>>> and feel that blocking my legitimate email means ORBS is just hacking
>>> the Internet to make transactions unreliable.  
>> 
>> I care too. And I don't appreciate an organization such as ORBS
>> deciding for me whether mail addressed to me should or shouldn't
>> be blocked depending upon from which mail server it emanates.
>
>For mail addressed TO you, they have no control over that. You do. As the 
>receiving system you can opt or not opt to use ORBS to filter your mail.
>
>>> ORBS has not publicised
>>> their intent and purpose widely thru the news media.
>> 
>> That's for sure. I have been around computers and the Internet
>> for a very long time, I read many different computer
>> publications, and I had never heard of ORBS prior to this thread.
>
>There is a cave, and therein reside the last eight people in all of the world 
>who haven't seen this flamewar rage time and time again. ORBS exists, it 
>isn't going away, many will use it, many will not. Some will agree with ORBS, 
>some will disagree, many will not give a shit one way or the other. Nobody's 
>opinions on this topic are really subject to change, let's all just scan the 
>deja.com archives, and feel free to re-read the whole war there, where you 
>can relive it in gory and graphic detail over and over to your heart's 
>content, but please let's NOT fill this group with the whole sordid saga -- 
>Again.
>
The fallacy is that not everyone who use email follow any newsgroup are
even aware of deja.com; you seem to think everyone who use computers or
email know about deja.com and that deja.com stores every msg since "day 1".