On Wednesday, July 27, 2011 04:12:14 AM Jan Ingvoldstad wrote: > The mailing list application might disable the subscription, that is, set > it not to receive further messages, after too many such bounces. Mailman > has options for handling this. > > Unfortunately, mailing lists are not necessarily applications. > > Assuming that they are will not lead to enlightenment. > > While I'm sure we can agree that, in an ideal world, mailing lists should > be intelligent software, handling this deftly and accurately, we as mail > exchange operators _cannot assume_ that this is the case.
My intended point is that if they're sending bounces for years they're not playing by the rules, and I really don't want them. They may not be what you call spammers, they may not even be what I call spammers, but they're certainly sending unwanted email and I've got no way to stop them other than to block them. Once they receive a bounce they should do something. They've been receiving bounces for years. Maybe I'm wrong, but you haven't convinced me yet. > In the same ideal world, spam wouldn't happen in the first place. > > I'm not fond of new and exciting ways to break Internet mail delivery. :( I don't think I'm breaking email delivery when I'm refusing email with a note explaining why. Saying otherwise, in my opinion, is saying I need to accept all the email that comes into my systems. So where am I wrong? Jeff -- Jeff Lasman, Nobaloney Internet Services Post Office Box 52200, Riverside, CA 92517 Our blists address used on lists is for list email only Phone +1 951 643-5345, or see: http://www.nobaloney.net/contactus.html -- ## List details at https://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
