Folks, This mailing-list is for mutual support discussion and help by the users of Exim. It is not a list for advocacy of mail policy, spam-fighting approaches, RFC holy wars or other mail-related topics that may come up from time to time.
If you disagree with a request or stance, then you have a number of options. One is to just remain silent; eg, when if you see a request which looks too much like a spammer asking for help spamming, you might choose to just keep silent. Another is to provide polite opinion interspersed with an answer, where you help someone get a solution to their problems, even if perhaps not quite the requested solution. But there's no need to hammer home the point, once made. We're probably all adults here, able to make our informed choices, and treating others as ignorant children will just inflame passions, rather than convince another adult. You might suggest, once (politely, as part of an answer that has more than just "don't do that" to it), a better way to do something, but continuing to do so becomes telling other people how to run *their* mail-systems. The Internet's email functions as a group of autonomous systems, run by local policy for local users, exchanging messages between those autonomous groups on a rough consensus of how this should be done, semi-documented in RFCs. Another option is to take the discussion elsewhere; there are mailing-lists dedicated to mail operations policies, to spam-fighting, DNS reputation lists, hat-checks and more. Some of these are sometimes germane to exim-users, but only to the extent of how Exim might be configured to use certain systems or techniques or avoid falling foul of someone else's criteria. Whether or not those criteria are appropriate is not germane to this list, only how to help beleaguered admins run systems that inter-operate with others. On this list, exim-users@, signal is defined as being related to Exim and if you're just telling others how to run their systems then that's noise. A low signal-to-noise ratio drives away both those seeking help and also those heavy power users and maintainers who can provide some of the most technical help but have no interest in wading through sludge to do so. Losing either one of those groups is a disservice to the community and lowers the long-term value of the list for everyone. Please respect the purpose of this list, as set out by those who provide the resources that run the list. Regards, -Phil Pennock
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