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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