On Sun, 2011-03-06 at 13:25 -0800, John Hardin wrote:
> On Sun, 6 Mar 2011, [email protected] wrote:
> > > Sure, it's spam. Do you want to whitelist a listserv that's relaying spam?
Yes. A list accepting mail by non-subscribers should be an exception,
and known by all subscribers.
> > Well, we whitelist servers which have been set up to forward all mail,
> > which are forwarding spam. And I'm not sure if that's different enough
> > from a mailing list, which we've effectively asked to send us everything
> > posted to the mailing list.
>
> Good point. However, I'd argue that the listserv should be behind a spam
> filter, which wouldn't apply to a blind forwarding MTA.
Subscription!
Spam (or any mail from non-subscribers for that matter) end up in the
moderator's queue. Spam filtering helps in keeping the queue low, but
the most important concept here is subscription.
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