On Jun 4, 2013, at 12:14 AM, Chris Withers wrote:

> On 04/06/2013 07:45, Noah Kantrowitz wrote:
>> 
>>>> As someone also in the top percentile of package maintainers I understand 
>>>> your annoyance, but just make a filter for [email protected] for the day 
>>>> or something. The vast majority of PyPI users have only one package so 
>>>> asking us to derail the sending (probably resulting in having to begin 
>>>> again) is unhelpful. If the only cost to us all is hitting Ctrl-A Delete, 
>>>> I welcome progress with open arms.
>>> 
>>> Are you not concerned that various bits of python.org involved in this 
>>> process are going to start getting hit by RBLs and other spam filtering 
>>> that will cause problems down the line as a result of all this noise?
>> 
>> No, because only a very small number of people are going to be getting more 
>> than a handful of these, and any user with 50+ packages is hopefully enough 
>> of a power-user to not fly off the handle.
> 
> That's not what I'm referring to; how much mail has actually been sent?
> 
> MTAs end up being blacklisted automatically by ISPs and RBLs if they 
> heuristically look like they're spewing spam. It's what companies like 
> MailChimp and co spend their lives working around.

Thanks to running many very very large mailing lists, I can promise you another 
few thousand messages exiting our servers is a non-issue.

--Noah

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