>>>>> "Harold" == Harold Paulson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Harold> The problem is that we are making net.messes by Harold> automatically replying to junk. It would be nice to see a Harold> general fix. Well, there isn't one.[1] Take the case in point. Your solution is also a hack in that it depends on having an explicit whitelist. Of course it's an excellent hack! It works in a *lot* of cases of interest to MLM admins, but in principle you don't want to keep whitelists (well, my Mom can spam me :-) or blacklists. It's content that you want to filter on (or out). Footnotes: [1] Well, you could have a "bonded mail" solution: every message arrives with a PayPal credit, and the reader either waives it or the sender pays. My sister gets a permanent waiver, the taxman and the "performance enhancement" salesmen can pay up. ;-) Problem is, that's too easy to corrupt into a Goodmail solution where the ISP collects the gelt. There's also Hashcash, but that's not a terribly happy solution for mailing lists. -- School of Systems and Information Engineering http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Ask not how you can "do" free software business; ask what your business can "do for" free software. ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp