Antispam

Mon Jul 14 18:36:15 PDT 2003

David,

You are missing my point. What percentage of the population have an MTA 
at home??

Alberto

David Wolfskill wrote:

>>Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 17:18:49 -0700
>>From: Alberto Begliomini <aub at coldstone.com>
>>To: Alvin Oga <alvin at Mail.Linux-Consulting.com>
>>CC: BayLISA <baylisa at baylisa.org>
>>Subject: Re: Antispam
> 
> 
>>Right. Except that if you are travelling, or at Starbucks, or anywhere 
>>where you do not have control over the MTA an email client with 
>>anti-spam features would help. Furthermore, this is a nice feature for 
>>people who are not system administrators and whose ISP's do not offer 
>>anti-spam features.
> 
> 
> Huh??!?  Since when does where *I* am have anything to do with where my
> MTA is?
> 
> I access mail via an SSH tunnel to one of my machines at home (under
> "screen":  thanks for the tip, Rick!) -- even if I am at home.  (The
> laptop's keyboard is the only one I use.  And the laptop runs FreeBSD.)
> 
> Also, I run my own MTA at home.  :-}  (Generally, when I update the
> "access.db" at home, I also do so for www.baylisa.org, and vice versa.)
> 
> Peace,
> david      (who has a hard time imagining using a Web broswer as an MUA)