On Sun, Sep 11, 2016 at 3:23 AM, Sandro Tosi wrote: > On Sat, Sep 10, 2016 at 7:35 PM, Barry Warsaw wrote: >> On Sep 10, 2016, at 02:46 PM, Sandro Tosi wrote: >> >>>I'm sure i'm not the only member using gmail, which bounces spam >>>emails and that what causes this problem. >> >> Are you sure about that? Bouncing spam has been bad practice for a very long >> time. > > i indeed used a wrong term (in email-world bounce has a specific > meaning): gmail rejects spam emails (according to its filters) during > the smtp session with the other MTA, so it's not a bounce, but the > sender (alioth in this case) cant deliver the email, and that's what > triggers the suspended membership process.
Rejecting instead of discarding spam sent to mailing lists has also been bad practice for a long time. -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise