In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Chuq Von Rospach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>At 9:30 AM -0700 10/10/99, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
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>> Would it? Is this sort of activity considered un-kosher, in general, or
>> is it just considered un-kosher if there's no good explanation for it
>> forthcoming from the party doing it?
>
>It would be hard to tell the difference between this and someone
>doing prep work for a spam attack. I'd say, even if you sent email to
>the postmaster explaining, it'd still raise hackles, and might well
>not be believed by anyone who doesn't know you, explanation or no.
>
>And if this were a tool that was going to be released for general
>usage, I'd say it'd make list managers very, very unhappy. Imagine
>if, oh, procmail did this for every user. it *would* turn into an
>attack on list servers, from sheer volume of requests.
Well *that* is certainly not what I had in mind!
Rather, I was just talking about _precompiling_ a list of envelope sender
addresses for legitimate mailing lists, once and only once.
(It would be prohibitively expensive to repeatedly do _anything_ relating
to mailing lists, repeatedly, for each end user, or for any significant
group thereof, or for each and ever message those end users receive.)
