On 2007-04-04 at 11:21 +0100, David Cantrell wrote:
> Such software should *never* under *any circumstances* send a challenge
> to something to contains a List-Id.  If it does contain a List-Id, then
> it is either a mailing list that the user signed up to and which
> consequently shouldn't be challenged, or it is something pretending to
> be a legitimate mailing list (ie, spam) and so there's no point
> challenging it as you'll never get a truthful "yes it was me and it's
> not spam" response.

Or its a bounce-forward, in which case the sender will hopefully be
already whitelisted.

Eg, friend bounces on interesting posts occasionally, acting as a S/N
filter.

-Phil, fighting over-generalisations

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