[AccessD] OT Friday: Comodo AntiSpam

jwcolby jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com
Sat Aug 11 18:08:00 CDT 2007


Rocky,

And no, I was not responding to your response specifically.  My apologies
that it appears that way. 


John W. Colby
Colby Consulting
www.ColbyConsulting.com 
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From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
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Sent: Saturday, August 11, 2007 6:19 PM
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Subject: Re: [AccessD] OT Friday: Comodo AntiSpam

Rocky,

And the bottom line is that is a valid choice.  If the person is not
important to you why in the world would you even read their email WITHOUT a
CR required?  If the person you are calling wants you to do something to
help him control the flood and you don't really care about talking to him,
then don't talk to him.  CR is all about "I need help here and if I am
important enough to talk to, please help me out here.

When I was growing up, my grandfather needed to put stucco on the outside of
his barn.  The whole community showed up to help.  Now you won't even take
10 seconds to respond to a CR.  Just goes to show how much community is
worth to us these days eh?  I have been a contributing member of this
community for 10 years and you would think I had raped your daughter by the
response when a CR request shows up in your inbox.  Pretty sad really.

John W. Colby
Colby Consulting
www.ColbyConsulting.com
-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Rocky Smolin at
Beach Access Software
Sent: Saturday, August 11, 2007 1:38 PM
To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
Subject: Re: [AccessD] OT Friday: Comodo AntiSpam

Now that you mention it, I've bailed on a couple of those CRs myself.  Just
wasn't interested enough in the message.  I figure, if I get an email from
them asking why I haven't responded, I'll tell them.  It's like people who
have caller ID and won't take your call if your number is blocked and you
have to dial *82 or some such  thing.  

Rocky





 	
	

-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Bryan Carbonnell
Sent: Saturday, August 11, 2007 9:57 AM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: Re: [AccessD] OT Friday: Comodo AntiSpam

On 8/11/07, Rocky Smolin at Beach Access Software <rockysmolin at bchacc.com>
wrote:
> How does CR handle the problem of people making inquiries about my 
> products and service from my web site?  I don't think I'd want them to 
> have to go through the CR thing.

The sender has to jump through hoops (reply to an e-mail, click a link,
enter a pass phrase/code, etc one or more of the listed steps) to get their
e-mail to you, or you have to go through the list of held posts and manually
approve it.

Be forewarned I know a LOT of people that will not, under any circumstances,
reply to a CR system. The get summarily deleted. That's what I do.

Even if you manually approve the e-mail to get through to you, you've
already lost a lot or people.

Now granted the places I hang out on the web are with a lot more technically
savy (e-mail and mail servers) than Joe Average user.
There are some that even set up rules to automatically delete the CRs sight
unseen, so there are folks that would not even know their e-mails haven't
gotten through.

I'm not trying to make it sound like the sky is falling, but just telling
you what I have seen and experienced personally.

> BTW, I feel kind of out of the loop on this since I never get that 
> much spam
> - maybe 5-10 a day.  Outlook seems to be real good at routing the spam 
> to my junk folder.  Very rarely does a legit email show up there.  And 
> a couple times a week it misses a spam and it ends up in my inbox.

Hell, I can send some to you. I've already got all the pills and software I
can handle. I am almost at my limit for pre-approved mortgages and loans too
:)

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