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From: David F. Skoll on 19 Oct 2009 07:38
dp wrote:

> If gmail weren't such a big source of spam I'd cut them a bit of slack,
> but gmail is a substantial source of spam, so I don't. I've often wondered
> what might happen to spam traffic if everyone blocked Google mail for one
> day each year.

We block gmail.com permanently. Reasoning is here:

http://www.roaringpenguin.com/whynogmail

I encourage all sysadmins to follow suit, assuming you can get away with
it. :-)

Regards,

David.
From: dp on 21 Oct 2009 01:08
Loki Harfagr wrote:
> Sun, 18 Oct 2009 10:39:52 -0700, Knute Johnson did cat :
>
>> dp wrote:
>>> lmeier wrote:
>>>
>>> If gmail weren't such a big source of spam I'd cut them a bit of slack,
>>> but gmail is a substantial source of spam, so I don't. I've often
>>> wondered what might happen to spam traffic if everyone blocked Google
>>> mail for one day each year. Naturally the retries would be oppressive,
>>> and the flotsam would finally be delivered, but do you suppose it would
>>> humble google just the tiniest bit? Maybe get their attention?
>>>
>>> dp
>> You would probably get arrested for being a terrorist or something :-).
>
> probably, and new laws to enforce the 'against proactive didacticism act' ;-)
>
> still, dennis idea is quite interesting but it'd need a real worldwide
> synchronization to be seen and properly understood as what it was and
> not just another transient noise.

But just look at how "Talk Like A Pirate" day has done. Definitely an organic
growth event (It's Sept. 19 in case anyone's out of the loop). :)

dp
From: Loki Harfagr on 21 Oct 2009 14:02
Tue, 20 Oct 2009 22:08:57 -0700, dp did cat :

> Loki Harfagr wrote:
>> Sun, 18 Oct 2009 10:39:52 -0700, Knute Johnson did cat :
>>
>>> dp wrote:
>>>> lmeier wrote:
>>>>
>>>> If gmail weren't such a big source of spam I'd cut them a bit of
>>>> slack, but gmail is a substantial source of spam, so I don't. I've
>>>> often wondered what might happen to spam traffic if everyone blocked
>>>> Google mail for one day each year. Naturally the retries would be
>>>> oppressive, and the flotsam would finally be delivered, but do you
>>>> suppose it would humble google just the tiniest bit? Maybe get their
>>>> attention?
>>>>
>>>> dp
>>> You would probably get arrested for being a terrorist or something
>>> :-).
>>
>> probably, and new laws to enforce the 'against proactive didacticism
>> act' ;-)
>>
>> still, dennis idea is quite interesting but it'd need a real worldwide
>> synchronization to be seen and properly understood as what it was and
>> not just another transient noise.
>
> But just look at how "Talk Like A Pirate" day has done.

excellent example indeed !-) I just discovered the expression and
now after having ued a few search engines discovered some infos
about its existence, never heard about afore or should I say
if the short transient fashion there was a few years ago in
a.o.l.s. to use starters like "arrrrr." (or so.) I really
didn't get the idea it was related to the joke event you quoted!

> Definitely an
> organic growth event

do you mean "now extinct" like the 'Franklinia'?->

> (It's Sept. 19 in case anyone's out of the loop).
> :)

well, these dimensions, seen from here are not of a loop but of a blackhole ,-)
Certainly enforces the idea about having to prepare a full sync
worldwide before to start a day of the triGGids...-)
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