On May 11, 2009, at 17:01, Garrett D'Amore wrote: > Bounced messages are *painful* to anyone who has to endure them. I > can't tell you how many times I've been faced with a choice to either > > a) figure out which address I can actually send from, or > b) just give up and decide that the reply I was sending only > needed to go to the sender, or > c) ask someone who is a member of the list to forward the message > to me > > Right now this problem is a serious impediment to collaboration. As > such, the laissez faire approach that it sounds like you and Alan > are using here is, IMO, harmful. > > Remember, many list owners are not "experienced" mailing list > administrators, and as such, the pitfalls of this configuration may > not be readily apparent. > > At a minimum, I think there should be a recommendation made to list > owners against this configuration.
Hey Garrett, The problem is that we may not all share your opinion here. Personally I prefer auto-reject since it saves me having to go to MailMan and delete the first attempt when I repost. I would prefer / all/ lists to go over to auto-reject as I think it's more efficient, both for the genuine member (who knows to immediately retry and doesn't have to go to MailMan to cancel the first attempt) and the community leader (who doesn't have to waste a bunch of time each day reading spam & troll messages looking for the genuine posts). I don't want to force my view on you, though. I think the whole thing is broken and no amount of rule making in any direction will help. Until membership of OpenSolaris is sufficient to allow any member to post to any list, the alternatives are both unwanted. So, Alan B - how is the perfect mailing list management system coming along? :-) S.
