-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Feb 7, 2007, at 11:40 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> Barry Warsaw writes: > >> Part of me agrees that this is what you'd like to see, but my gut >> tells me that this will never work in practice. First, no one but an >> email geek will even understand the question, let alone know how to >> answer it, > > Agreed. It's a stalking horse for the BCP; for anybody who's not an > email geek, I have this simple advice regarding the BCP: > > Run away! Run away! LOL. >> and second, I fear that most u/i's and policy engines will >> boil this down to a very simple choice for the user: >> >> This message is unverified >> >> [Accept] [Discard] >> (o) Do the same for all similar messages > > Make sure no spam gets through your double opt-in list, and you're > golden, no? Ideally yeah. But python.org does get reported occasionally since while I think we do a pretty good job of blocking most spam, some nasties gated from Usenet still get through. Sigh. (Today's rant: overly aggressive blackholes that block /all/ cable and DSL IPs that reverse to the ISP doman. For FSM's sake, I have a static IP address already!) > Similar is *not* going to reduce to "is unverified"; too many > grandmothers will lose messages from the grandkids. You might be right about that. - -Barry -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Darwin) iQCVAwUBRcoAaXEjvBPtnXfVAQIxrwP/XpboY8mzsbw5LG9L+8Un/M4ogwgP4FgO 6JYNwgaMUAl4cWb1uXBgVuICUEP9LJMwj24SnqENV5HSxDWL5ui2jLj4psPS0h3U 9JXVT/gOjrW2Mr6XeGpVhDO5Zwe8I6obJU4zy/Iey7cqkB+uRyVK+00R5DGmvvo+ cKtcxXYv5HI= =W+TD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Mailman-Developers mailing list Mailman-Developers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-developers Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-developers%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-developers/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp
