On Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 10:39:02PM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote: | Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: | | > Blocking his posts to the list while the listmaster tries to help | > him could help -- if the listmaster has the time to do that, of course! | > That would save a lot of bandwidth (the offending posts *and* the | > discussion about them would at least not last too long), but this can't | > be easily done automatically [1]. | To me, the best solution to this would be to customize the tagline on | each outgoing message, so that it would read something like "you are | subscribed as [EMAIL PROTECTED], to remove send a message _from that | address_ to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the magic word."
| I don't know how hard or easy this would be to implement, but it sounds | nontrivial. IMO this is a bad choice. This will increase the load on the mail server (murphy.debian.org) by several orders of magnitude because all messages will then contain unique content. The ability to connect to a server and use multiple RCPT TO: commands to eliminate duplicate transfers of the message contents depends on the recipients all receiving the same content. | I suppose there are some privacy / archival issues, such as | the desire to scrub mailing list archives of email addresses to foil | spambots. Who cares about that? Use SA to reject the spam mails and get removed from the lists. I think it really works because SA rejects less spam now than it did when I first set it up (and I'm not getting those high-scoring messages delivered). -D -- Microsoft: "Windows NT 4.0 now has the same user-interface as Windows 95" Windows 95: "Press CTRL-ALT-DEL to reboot" Windows NT 4.0: "Press CTRL-ALT-DEL to login" GnuPG key : http://dman.ddts.net/~dman/public_key.gpg
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