Policy - auto-challenge users (TMDA or other aside from Vacation setting) will be in Digest Mode and Moderated until a better solution is found. Discussion of TMDA will move off the Boston.pm list now.
bill indefinite interim facilitator On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 5:51 PM, Bob Rogers <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Ben Tilly <[email protected]> > Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 14:04:58 -0700 > > 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. > > Or I could decide to add him to my whitelist. > > That said, I understand Randal's position. It makes emails > inaccessible to anyone who doesn't see the bounce message for any > reason . . . > > True (though only if I don't happen to check the "pending" queue in > time). But no less true that if, say, somebody had mistyped my address. > Getting bounces is important, for both sender and recipient. > > Ironically if two people use TMDA, they have no way to ever establish > email contact. > > That is only true for TMDA users who block bounce messages, which I > consider misconfiguration. I have only needed to do so once, for about > 24 hours, to stop from being Joe-jobbed. > > 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. > > That is also not true, at least for me. I have TMDA configured to > generate challeges only for messages not flagged as spam by a Bayesian > filter. So only those spams that could get through a "proper spam > solution" will generate blowback. > > And I'm also used to this sort of misinformed criticism. People who > don't like TMDA *really* don't like it. That's a shame. > > -- Bob > > _______________________________________________ > Boston-pm mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm > -- Bill @n1vux [email protected] _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
