Anne Wainwright writes: > I have sinned and stand repentant. I hate spam as much as anyone and we > get plenty to deal with. Somehow the Viagra and get rich emails didn't > seem to stand on the same level as a once-off invite.
They don't, from the point of view of the sender or society at large. But for the recipient.... > As an aside, I have to ask whether the 'invite' feature in Mailman has a > function. Sure. As Mark points out, it confirms the intention of the user to join, which gives you the "double opt-in" property that gives a conservative litmus test for "not spam". I think it might be a useful question to ask, "how can the invite feature be made more functional?" In particular, if you've written a careful email, answering an inquiry, I see nothing spammy about adding a Mailman invite to that ... if it were possible, which currently it isn't, from any mail client I know of. OTOH, you could write that email using Mailman's "invite" interface, but I bet you'd get tired of that real quick. ------------------------------------------------------ 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
