Re: Posting from work/university addresses

Robin Getz
2007-08-05T03:51:37Z

On Sat 4 Aug 2007 20:03, Christopher Faylor pondered:
> On Sat, Aug 04, 2007 at 09:50:48PM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> >>From: Ian Lance Taylor
> >>Date: 04 Aug 2007 11:32:44 -0700
> >>
> >>As far as I can tell, you are requesting that we not do anything dumb,
> >
> >No, that's not it. My problem is that I don't see the motivation for
> >rejecting such messages spelled out anywhere. The URL you mentioned
> >_advises_ to do something, but, AFAIU, there's some policy issues
> >involved here, which are not explained anywhere.
>
> Actually, the words politely requires that confidentiality notices not
> be included. Since that was the best we could do until recently we
> relied, unsuccessfully, on people to do the right thing. I've been
> promising people for years that I'd modify the spam software enforce the
> policy and a recent discussion on the gcc channel prodded me into taking
> action.

Is the concern of publishing the regex that people would modify things to get
around it? Or why not just publish it somewhere?

-Robin