On Mon 2007-02-26 14:26:58 -0800 Paul Johnson wrote: > David Hart wrote: > > On Sat 2007-02-24 21:03:11 -0500 Greg Folkert wrote: > >> > >> Bouncing... bingo. If the sender doesn't handle it properly, it isn't my > >> problem. > > > > You've already outlined a case where bouncing spam became your problem. > > You said in an earlier mail "I used to not whitelist murphy, but that > > got me auto-unsub'd from (most) Debian lists I subscribe to, for > > "bouncing" the SPAM" > > 4xx rejects work better than 5xx for content-related rejects: After all > there is a chance the message would be accepted under better circumstances > in such a case. Or read the list via > nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.user instead. :o)
Why would a message identified as spam be identified as anything else at a later date and why would those be "better circumstances"? How does 4XXing the message to the mailing list help? Surely you are giving the list server a bit extra work to do as it will keep retrying the message until it times out after a few days? -- David Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]