Russ Allbery <[email protected]> writes: > Ben Pfaff <[email protected]> writes: >> Don Armstrong <[email protected]> writes: > >>> If you sign up for mail from mailing lists, just discard mail that you >>> don't want to read that comes in from us with Priority: bulk or List-* >>> headers instead of bouncing it. A mailing list is little more than a >>> glorified mail forwarder: bouncing forwarded mail is wrong. > >> I don't control my mail server, so I can't make it do that. > > For whatever it's worth, Stanford's main campus servers never bounce spam > for basically this reason. We either silently discard it if it's > extremely high-probability spam or we deliver it tagged and let the > recipient filter it or not as they choose.
For what it's worth, I wasn't trying to say anything about the main Stanford or Stanford CS department mail servers. Even though I use @cs.stanford.edu as my primary email address, my mail gets forwarded off campus to a completely different site thousands of miles away. -- Ben Pfaff http://benpfaff.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
