> In the last eight years this is the first time this came up, so this is > not > a common occurence. I do not know why your specific list attracted so many > aforementioned boobs. Nobody else seems to had the same problem, in the > last > eight years, as far as I can tell. Furthermore, Qmail's ezmlm does the > same > thing, as I said, and it predates Courier by some years. And I've seen > other > mailing list managers that also number their list messages. This is > standard, reasonable practice, and I see no reason to change it just > because > there are, perhaps, more dumb people on the Internet, now.
Sam, the difference here is we have a very unique situation. This is a list with over 20k addresses. The majority of the addresses are in Brazil, and of the ones in Brazil, a significant number is from the number one ISP there. This number one ISP has this "antispam" feature which is adopted by many of their users, thus why the problem is encountered. So in this particular situation, what it amounts to is that a couple thousand end up having adopted this registration feature. To me it's not a matter of rudeness or stupidity. I'm talking about thousands of common internet users who simply view this feature as something that would boost their antispam capability. They don't know any better, they typically know nothing about antispam policies, or anything of that sort. It's just the common user that wants to be a part of this list yet have decided to also adopt this feature offered by the ISP. That's basically where I'm coming from. The end result is that this visually impaired friend of mine, who also has no control over the usage habits of the people in this list, has to be able to handle this situation because at the end of the day he would like to have everybody receive his daily message. Anyway, we've gone off on a tangent here, I understand your point, but it's not the fault of the common joe out there, and as I can see there's nothing that I can do to help alleviate the problem. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
