* Geoff Shang <ge...@quitelikely.com>: > On Fri, 11 May 2012, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: > > >On the other hand we're getting spam reports for list mails (not > >spam!) our users sent to a list. But since it's not spam we cannot > >actually do anything about those mails while the LIST ADMIN could > >easily unsubscribe the people reporting the spam. > > Except the list admin may not know about this.
Yes, he doesn't know, since he's never notified. We're getting the feedback-loop mails. > Some people are just too lazy to unsubscribe from a list they > double-opted into and report the mail as spam. Indeed! > I had a situation where the organisation I was working for was having > all mail sent from its server being completely blocked by a large > American ISP, all on the back of one person's spam reports. Same here. > They wouldn't even tell us what the address was. Fortunately I was > able to figure out the address and the list from the headers of a > message and remove the person in question. I'm not sure that I'dve > been able to do this with a Mailman message, they were using inferior > (IMHO) list software then. > > The only way we could avoid this happening again was to subscribe to > their feedback loop. Then we would receive the spam reports instead > of them being immediately acted upon, under the understanding that we > would act on them instead. Exactly. > Of course, everyone has their own feedback loop, and if you care > about getting mail through to big providers, you'll probably need to > subscribe to all their feedback loops. Oh yes. -- Ralf Hildebrandt Charite Universitätsmedizin Berlin ralf.hildebra...@charite.de Campus Benjamin Franklin http://www.charite.de Hindenburgdamm 30, 12203 Berlin Geschäftsbereich IT, Abt. Netzwerk fon: +49-30-450.570.155 ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org