Lo, on Wednesday, June 5, Jeronimo Pellegrini did write:
> > > To me, the best solution to this would be to customize the tagline on
> > > each outgoing message, so that it would read something like "you are
> > > subscribed as [EMAIL PROTECTED], to remove send a message _from that
> > > address_
On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 07:38:39AM -0700, Walter Reed wrote:
> > I would just like to point out the legal saying that "big cases make bad
> > law." We're all irritated by one moron's behavior; that's not necessarily
> > an argument for significant technical or policy changes. By all
> > indicatio
On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 12:13:37PM -0500, Jamin W. Collins wrote:
| On Wed, 5 Jun 2002 10:51:33 -0500
| "Derrick 'dman' Hudson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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| > Actually, it's really easy to blackhole their messages on your end.
| > From your POV it's basically the same thing (apart from bandwidth
On Wed, 5 Jun 2002 10:51:33 -0500
"Derrick 'dman' Hudson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Actually, it's really easy to blackhole their messages on your end.
> From your POV it's basically the same thing (apart from bandwidth
> usage).
Yes, blackholing the messages is easy. As for bandwidth being t
On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 08:34:27AM -0300, Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote:
| > In any case, idiots who auto-reply to every list mail they receive until
| > they get their way are not easily defeated by any technological solution.
|
| He he... Indeed!
Actually, it's really easy to blackhole their mes
On Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 10:39:02PM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote:
| Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote:
|
| > Blocking his posts to the list while the listmaster tries to help
| > him could help -- if the listmaster has the time to do that, of course!
| > That would save a lot of bandwidth (the offending post
> I would just like to point out the legal saying that "big cases make bad
> law." We're all irritated by one moron's behavior; that's not necessarily
> an argument for significant technical or policy changes. By all
> indications he's gone, and in any case by the end of the day no fewer than
> f
Bad idea!
There are thousand web mail services out there. And with any normal mail
service you can play with headers.
Do you really want me to change my email habits?
Cheers.
--- Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > Oleg wrote:
>
> > On Tuesday 04 June 2002 07:37 pm, David W
On Tue, 4 Jun 2002, Walter Reed wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 03:05:46AM +0200, Joris wrote:
> > > On Tuesday 04 June 2002 07:37 pm, David Wright wrote:
> > > b) disallow posting from unconfirmed addresses; if [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > wasn't subscribed, how could he post?
> >
I would just lik
> > To me, the best solution to this would be to customize the tagline on
> > each outgoing message, so that it would read something like "you are
> > subscribed as [EMAIL PROTECTED], to remove send a message _from that
> > address_ to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the magic word." That way, the
> > clue
On Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 10:39:02PM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote:
> Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote:
>
> > Blocking his posts to the list while the listmaster tries to help
> > him could help -- if the listmaster has the time to do that, of course!
> > That would save a lot of bandwidth (the offending post
Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote:
> Blocking his posts to the list while the listmaster tries to help
> him could help -- if the listmaster has the time to do that, of course!
> That would save a lot of bandwidth (the offending posts *and* the
> discussion about them would at least not last too long), bu
>> this would prevent many people who read this list as a newsgroup to
>> contribute
>
> I don't see how...everyone here's got an MTA installed.
What's having an MTA have to do with it? I don't subscribe
because I find it more convenient to read the list as a
newsgroup via muc.lists.debain.user.
> b) disallow posting from unconfirmed addresses; if [EMAIL PROTECTED] wasn't
> subscribed, how could he post?
Hey! What about those of use who read via muc.lists.debian.user?
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On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 03:05:46AM +0200, Joris wrote:
> this would prevent many people who read this list as a newsgroup to
> contribute
I don't see how...everyone here's got an MTA installed.
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On Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 04:15:27PM -0700, ben wrote:
> while his response to the situation was obviously ridiculous, if this
> statement above is true, it seems that there's some kinda bug in the list
> management. something similar happened in debi
On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 03:05:46AM +0200, Joris wrote:
> > On Tuesday 04 June 2002 07:37 pm, David Wright wrote:
> > b) disallow posting from unconfirmed addresses; if [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > wasn't subscribed, how could he post?
>
> this would prevent many people who read this list as a newsgroup t
> On Tuesday 04 June 2002 07:37 pm, David Wright wrote:
>> 1) Create an account and subscribe it to debian-user. 2) Set it to
>> forward to [EMAIL PROTECTED] 3) Leave
>>
>> No list managemenent system can protect against this.
>
> I don't know what the state of the art of list management software
Oleg wrote:
On Tuesday 04 June 2002 07:37 pm, David Wright wrote:
1) Create an account and subscribe it to debian-user.
2) Set it to forward to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
3) Leave
No list managemenent system can protect against this.
I don't know what the state of the art of list management softwar
> It's not clear what can be done about this at Debian's end other than to
> encourage people to post full headers whenever anything goes wrong.
Blocking his posts to the list while the listmaster tries to help
him could help -- if the listmaster has the time to do that, of course!
That would save
On Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 11:59:21PM +, Pollywog wrote:
> I don't know how it happened, but just yesterday I was subscribed to
> a mailing list by someone else. I certainly did not subscribe, and
> somehow the list managing software for that list received the
> subscription confirmation allegedl
On Tuesday 04 June 2002 07:37 pm, David Wright wrote:
> 1) Create an account and subscribe it to debian-user.
> 2) Set it to forward to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 3) Leave
>
> No list managemenent system can protect against this.
I don't know what the state of the art of list management software is, but
On Tue, 4 Jun 2002 16:15:27 -0700
"ben" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> while his response to the situation was obviously ridiculous, if
> this statement above is true, it seems that there's some kinda bug
> in the list management. something similar happened in debian-kde
> just recently. in the inte
On Tuesday 04 June 2002 04:25 pm, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 04:15:27PM -0700, ben wrote:
> > while his response to the situation was obviously ridiculous, if this
> > statement above is true, it seems that there's some kinda bug in the list
> > management. something similar happ
> while his response to the situation was obviously ridiculous, if this
> statement above is true, it seems that there's some kinda bug in the list
> management. something similar happened in debian-kde just recently. in the
> interest of preventing anymore of the same in the future, anybody want
On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 12:25:14AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 04:15:27PM -0700, ben wrote:
> > while his response to the situation was obviously ridiculous, if this
> > statement above is true, it seems that there's some kinda bug in the list
> > management. something si
On Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 04:15:27PM -0700, ben wrote:
>
> allegedly the last email from ponik the slovakian bofh
>
> It is my last mail for you.
>
> Thank everybody for
On Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 04:15:27PM -0700, ben wrote:
> while his response to the situation was obviously ridiculous, if this
> statement above is true, it seems that there's some kinda bug in the list
> management. something similar happened in debian-kde just recently. in the
> interest of prev
This would be easy to do. If I create an account on my domain and
honestly subscribe to the
list and then set all the email to that address to be fowarded to a
second address everything
for any list server would look to be ok.
If I were the one that did it in this case I would register the ema
allegedly the last email from ponik the slovakian bofh
It is my last mail for you.
Thank everybody for help.
(Problem was with forwarding every mails from debian-user@
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