[offtopic] Re: Please confirm your message to spair@acm.org

Stephen Pair spair at acm.org
Tue Aug 27 01:41:30 UTC 2002


Sorry for this off topic post to this list...it appears that Scott was
unhappy with an automated email that my anti-spam software sent him
after he sent an email to me off list.

If anyone would like this software, you can get it at:
http://www.tmda.net/

I've had great success with it, and *most* people don't mind the
confirmation email (which only get's if you've never confirmed your
existence).  It accurately eliminates about 50-60 spam messages per day
from getting to my inbox.  In a perfect world, it wouldn't be necessary.

- Stephen

> -----Original Message-----
> From: squeak-dev-admin at lists.squeakfoundation.org 
> [mailto:squeak-dev-admin at lists.squeakfoundation.org] On 
> Behalf Of Scott A Crosby
> Sent: Monday, August 26, 2002 9:11 PM
> To: squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org
> Subject: [offtopic] Re: Please confirm your message to spair at acm.org
> 
> 
> On Mon, 26 Aug 2002 20:41:34 -0400 (EDT), spair at acm.org writes:
> 
> > In an effort to minimize junk mail, I'm now only accepting 
> email from 
> > senders that confirm they really exist.  Thus, your e-mail message 
> > with the subject of "Re: Rehash entire image?" is being 
> held because 
> > your address was not recognized.
> 
> ''In an effort to maximize the amount of unwanted crap 
> appearing in other peoples mailboxes, and to insure that 
> people cease to answer my questions or offer help, I have 
> sent you this message. I am doing my best to shout out, 'go 
> away' to a helpful response to a question.''
> 
> As this is the first and only message you have sent to me 
> (and its a spam at that), this shall be the last message of 
> yours I shall respond to.
> 
> > To release your message for delivery, please reply to this 
> message, or 
> > send an email to the following address (the contents of the 
> email do 
> > not matter):
> 
> To be read by me in the future, you must promise to never 
> send an UNSOLICITED spam such as this into my inbox or anyone elses.
> 
> If you must send these out, at least send in your public 
> postings a header with something like: 'Delivery-Agent: TMDA' 
> Or better yet 'spair-tmda at ...' so we who wish to have control 
> over our inbox can have a choice of whether to reply to you, 
> knowing we'll get such a spammish robot-reply in return, or not.
> 
> Please?
> 
> Scott
> 
> 
> > 
> >    spair-confirm-1030408894.5619.d5401e at advantive.com
> > 
> > By sending an email to this address, you are verifying that your 
> > message is legitimate and not junk mail.  Once you verify 
> your email 
> > address by replying to this message, all further 
> correspondence will 
> > be delivered without delay.
> > 
> > --- Enclosed is a copy of your message.
> > 
> > From scrosby at cs.rice.edu Tue Aug 27 00:41:34 2002
> > Return-Path: <scrosby at cs.rice.edu>
> > Delivered-To: spair at advantive.com
> > Received: (qmail 5615 invoked by uid 500); 27 Aug 2002 
> 00:41:34 -0000
> > Delivered-To: spair-acm at advantive.com
> > Received: (qmail 5609 invoked by uid 0); 27 Aug 2002 00:41:34 -0000
> > Received: from unknown (HELO alias.acm.org) (199.222.69.90)
> >   by citrus.advantive.com with SMTP; 27 Aug 2002 00:41:34 -0000
> > Received: from cs.rice.edu ([128.42.1.30])
> >         by alias.acm.org (ACM Email Forwarding Service) 
> with ESMTP id COB73880
> >         for <spair at acm.org>; Mon, 26 Aug 2002 20:42:39 -0400
> > Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1])
> > 	by cs.rice.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP
> > 	id AA09B4A9D1; Mon, 26 Aug 2002 19:41:32 -0500 (CDT)
> > Received: from bert.cs.rice.edu (bert.cs.rice.edu [128.42.3.146])
> > 	by cs.rice.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP
> > 	id 348124A9B3; Mon, 26 Aug 2002 19:41:32 -0500 (CDT)
> > Received: by bert.cs.rice.edu (Postfix, from userid 14314)
> > 	id D938637410A; Mon, 26 Aug 2002 19:41:31 -0500 (CDT)
> > Sender: scrosby at bert.cs.rice.edu
> > To: "Stephen Pair" <spair at acm.org>
> > Cc: <squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
> > Subject: Re: Rehash entire image?
> > References: <005f01c24a47$689083b0$0e00000a at SPAIR>
> > From: Scott A Crosby <scrosby at cs.rice.edu>
> > Organization: Rice University
> > Date: 26 Aug 2002 19:41:31 -0500
> > In-Reply-To: <005f01c24a47$689083b0$0e00000a at SPAIR>
> > Message-ID: <oydelclrv44.fsf at bert.cs.rice.edu>
> > Lines: 12
> > User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.4 (Common Lisp)
> > MIME-Version: 1.0
> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
> > X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS snapshot-20020300
> > X-ADV-Confirm-Sender: spair at acm.org
> > X-ADV-Originally-To: spair at acm.org
> > 
> > On Thu, 22 Aug 2002 21:50:07 -0400, "Stephen Pair" <spair at acm.org> 
> > writes:
> > 
> > > Is there a method to rehash the entire image?  I haven't 
> seen one, 
> > > but it seems unlikely that there wouldn't be one.
> > 
> > Rehashallsets or something like that... Look in Set>>
> > 
> > I suspect you're barking up the tree I did about 6 months 
> ago; fixing 
> > the brokenness of how we use hashes. Look at my past work 
> and continue 
> > it.  I also fixed ALL collections at once.
> > 
> > Scott
> 
> 




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