For him to discuss it off list would be pointless because his emails will bounce until he goes through the confirmation. At which point he won't have spam to deal with.
That said, I understand Randal's position. It makes emails inaccessible to anyone who doesn't see the bounce message for any reason. This can happen for a variety of reasons. A few important ones including that it looks like spam to a spam filter, someone is busy, or you're getting an email with important notifications from an address that is not supposed to have replies sent. Ironically if two people use TMDA, they have no way to ever establish email contact. This fact is why the technology never had more than a niche acceptance. But if you're willing to be anti-social, I'll grant that you block a lot of spam. However at the cost of being potentially used as a spam host yourself. Anyone who wants can forge email header, which can cause you to bounce your spam to anyone else in the world. On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 1:44 PM, Ronald J Kimball <[email protected]> wrote: > If you actually consider this to be spam, forwarding it to the mailing list > is an odd choice. > > Anyway, this seems like an issue that would be better discussed off list. > > thank you, > Ronald > > (Not sure if I'm still the list moderator, since I'm no longer the > facilitator... :) > > > On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 01:36:35PM -0700, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: >> >> Oh look, another spam message! I guess I'll have to make sure >> 216.146.47.5 gets added to every real-time-blackhole list, because it >> seems to be spewing nonsense. >> >> Seriously, dude, TURN THIS OFF. >> > > _______________________________________________ > Boston-pm mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm > _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
