Re: Is mailback validation still safe?

[Mike Nolan]

Gee, and here I was thinking that maybe for once we could discuss a 
substantive topic without resorting to calling each other names.  Oh well.

> The answer is quite simple: list servers (and mailbots, and vacation 
> bots and ANYTHING that auto-responds) needs to rate-limit their 
> replies to an address. Wtih a vacation bot it's simple, and the 
> standard vacation program has that feature. 

Rate limiting on the administrative and archive server ends of a MLM
sounds like not only a doable but a very worthwhile feature.  It would
need to be tuneable, of course, especially with regards to archive or info
files.  One approach to this would be to rate limit non-member addresses
differently than list member addresses, I suppose.
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Mike Nolan