At 11:56 AM 2002-08-01 -0400, Charlie Summers wrote: > And of course, there are different ways for other mailing list servers. >But I'm curious to know if you perchance have copies of the original >subscription requests - if they are envelope-from gmane.org, there doesn't >seem to be any reason not to just REJECT their mail on the sendmail level >(other than the postmaster argument, which I'd maintain doesn't apply here >since I don't want to talk to these clowns AT ALL and it's my server/my >choice, can anyone think of a legitimate reason to accept mail from them?).
Um, yes, I do. The subscribe came this way: From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Jul 28 15:31:24 2002 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The confirmation came this way From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Jul 28 15:52:08 2002 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] With this From: line: To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gmane Administrator) But I reserve those sendmail rejections for spammers. Yes, setting up an external archive without permission is net abuse, but it is not at the same level as spam, at least in my opinion. And, were I not able to get them off my lists by using a simple Mj2 rule, or, if for some reason, I had a policy that did not effectively forbid external archives and if I wanted to blow off the submissions from their server (because of the extra work they will entail), I'd definitely consider leaving them subscribed and blocking their server when it sent to my submission addresses (with postfix, I typically block spammers at the -request addresses, but not at the submission addresses, since those are dealt with without my intervention, so this would reverse that, and I do not block spammers at -owner\+.* addresses so that the bounces get through and I can get people on dead addresses unsubbed). -- "I support what Jim Brady is doing. There are so many dopes in this country that we should leave the guns just in the hands of the police and myself." -- Howard Stern Nick Simicich mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://scifi.squawk.com/njs.html -- Stop by and Light Up The World!
