On Fri, 17 May 2013 09:15:35 -0400 Jerry wrote: > On Fri, 17 May 2013 14:03:01 +0100 > RW articulated: > > > On Fri, 17 May 2013 08:45:29 -0400 > > Jerry wrote: > > > > > On Fri, 17 May 2013 13:19:32 +0100 > > > RW articulated: > > > > > > > On Fri, 17 May 2013 12:54:29 +0100 > > > > Bruce Cran wrote: > > > > > > > > > Yes, seriously. Have you seen the number of people who post > > > > > messages "PLEASE REMOVE ME FROM THIS MAILING LIST!!", > > > > > apparently not understanding how to manage their subscription? > > > > > > > > There's also the likelyhood that reluctant subscribers are less > > > > likely to take care about avoiding various types of backscatter. > > > > > > Well, unless the reluctant subscriber is running an incorrectly > > > configured MTA, I don't see a problem with "backscatter". Now, if > > > they do have a maladjusted MTA, they have more problems then just > > > subscribing to a list. > > > > Out of Office replies, sieve rejects, anti-spam challenges etc > > Yes, an incorrectly configured MTA or one of its milters.
Not especially > There are > ways to deal with these assholes. Only some of it, and there's no general way of dealing with the out-of-list component. > Allowing a blanket "open-door" > policy is like setting file permissions on everything to 0777 just > because you are to lazy to find a correct solution to a problem. Actually requiring subscription is pretty much like setting 0777, it's really only a protection against accidental list spamming. If a spammer actually wanted to spam lists he could harvest subscribed addresses, or simply subscribe. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
