Mark has spotted a blog police on the .net. Although the sherrif has aproved my blog (yuck..) I honestly think people should use a good newsreader to select the things they want to read instead of trying to shoot posts which might be interesting to others.

It reminds me a little of my experiences with handling spam. It takes several steps to reach my inbox. First my provider uses a filter to send suspected mail to a junk mailbox. The mail which does make it over the wire is checked by Outlook 2003 which sends suspect messages to its junk box. I havn't seen Outlook make any false aquisations yet but my (respected) provider (xs4all) is far too strict. For instance, since two weeks all publications of Windows and .net magazine are considerd spam. To me WinInfo Daily Update is a major source of very good information and has a well working subscription procedure. So I find myself running daily through all the junk to get my beloved newsletter. Lifting the spam filter would result in 40+ spam, it is the risk of having a website with a working email address.

To me the war on spam is resulting in (to much) collateral damage and I don't think shooting unintersting blog-post is worth any casualties at all.

Blog on, say whatever you want to say. Become an outlaw !

Peter