Re: whitelist_auth return_path / from

On 2024-07-03 at 11:51:10 UTC-0400 (Wed, 03 Jul 2024 17:51:10 +0200)
Benny Pedersen <[email protected]>
is rumored to have said:

> Bill Cole skrev den 2024-07-03 17:11:
>
>> Not Currently Available For Hire
>
> lol :)
>
> back to sandbox, hehe

??

Random idioms crossing paths without the slightest chance of 
connecting...

"Not For Hire" is frequently seen on commercial vehicles in the USA of 
classes which face differing regulations depending on whether they are 
used solely by the owner or if they are publicly available for hire, 
such as towing vehicles and shipping vehicles. The label is not 
mandatory, but it can avoid needing to justify yourself to police in 
some cases and to avoid random pointless solicitations of work. One can 
also find trucks explicitly labeled "Available For Hire" but much more 
rarely.

For years I did not have anything like that in my sig and got a steady 
stream of solicitations for work that I mostly could not take for a 
variety of reasons related to commitments to existing clients/employers, 
from people who got my address from a public technical forum of some 
sort. I believe that many if not most were legitimate, not simply spam, 
so they wasted real effort to compose and to respond politely. OTOH, I 
can attribute almost all of my *successful* work opportunities since 
2000 to initial contacts which came (passively) to me via newsgroups, 
mailing lists, and social media.

I have used that notice in my sig for some time now and it correlates to 
a drop in legit-seeming solicitations that I cannot accept, which is a 
good thing. Alternative causal explanations include the fact that I've 
experienced a drop in quality and the factoid (unsourced) that fewer 
people have been paying attention to mailing lists like this one in 
recent years.


-- 
Bill Cole
[email protected] or [email protected]
(AKA @[email protected] and many *@billmail.scconsult.com 
addresses)
Not Currently Available For Hire