[rescue] Corrupted list messages
Jonathan Patschke
jp at celestrion.net
Thu Sep 30 09:17:37 CDT 2021
On Thu, 30 Sep 2021, Mouse wrote:
> There is, I think, _nobody_ that I actually _need_ to correspond with
> at my home address.
The calculus is a bit different for me. I participate in a fair number
of non-tech community organizations, and it's already enough of a hill
to climb explaining why my email address is ${group}@${me}.celestrion.net.
I'd much rather spamfight email (which I can do asynchronously) than ask
them to telephone me--which means spamfighting the VoIP spoofers in real
time.
> Only if you have broken governance. (Which we do - catastrophically
> broken - at the moment.)
Yep. That happened the instant that network access became a "public
good" rather than agreements among peers. Without an effective
"Internet Death Sentence," the cost-benefit-analysis for bad behavior
favors the sociopathic.
> I guess I'm readier than most to tell people, in so many words if
> necessary, "you picked a spamhaus as a provider, switch providers if
> you want to mail me".
That's exactly it. There may come a day where I tell people to
telephone me or write a letter or visit rather than email, but email is
still function enough to be worth the trouble incurred in dealing with
people who don't care.
> She gets too much email to handle it all - and taking something like
> that on is another price I'm not willing to pay.
I empathize with that. This list is one of the few places where I use
my "real" email address (just because of how long I've been on here);
most of my email communications go through aliases so that things are
easier to auto-filter by project. It started as a way to defend against
address harvesting, but has also been monumentally informative in
letting me know which companies I deal with have unintentional data
security problems.
--
Jonathan Patschke
Austin, TX
USA
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