Re: Censoring (RE: Using IPv8 Addressing with IPv6)

[Harald Tveit Alvestrand <Harald.Alvestrand at maxware.no>]

At 11:40 24.07.98 -0700, Nic Gandin wrote:

>>And this works so well that I've occasionally wondered just what it was
>>that other people were arguing about -- Harald's censored sublist only
>>has a few messages a day, and none of them are about DNS politics.
>
>  I disagree.
>
>   Harald is not doing a live intelligent censorship
>   as I would have expected, based on the last line
>   above. His X-Filter-Ruleset setup allows  too
>   much noise to pass thru. Just filtering out some
>   well-known offenders will spare a lot of bandwidth.

I do filter some people. The bandwidth is spared.
For some, I also filter all attempts to *reply* to these people.
Think about why....

Reasons for not doing live filtering:
Maintaining the ruleset costs me perhaps an hour a month, does
not delay accepted mail, and can be done in "spare moments".
Live filtering would cost me several minutes per day, and would
delay mail even when it is accepted, sometimes for long periods.
(I don't log on often when I'm on vacation).

Live filtering is not workable without 24x7 staffing (IMHO), and
that simply does not make economic sense.

                    Harald

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Harald Tveit Alvestrand, Maxware, Norway
Harald.Alvestrand at maxware.no