At 11:10 AM 2002-11-26, Fred Baker wrote: >At 07:39 AM 11/26/2002 -0800, Kurt D. Zeilenga wrote: >>The list admin should add the unsubscribed address to the >>list of "known email addresses". See item 5 in: >> http://www.ietf.org/IESG/STATEMENTS/mail-submit-policy.txt > >that's one of the list admin's options. But it turns out that many list admins >consider adding a name to a list unbidden is impolite, and choose to not do this >either, because they consider it error-prone and potentially insecure.
I think it could be easily argued that manual approval process is far more error-prone than automated approval process and comes with the most of the same security and "use" issues you discuss. Anyways, if the admin really considers it impolite (I don't), then maybe that admin should send the user an opt-in (or opt-out) notice before (or after) adding the user to the pre-approved list of posters. (Note: for the subscribers list, the policy should be opt-in). This is easily automated (most list management software supports such). >Is it so hard to do? echo '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' >> namedroppers.allowed-posters is not hard at all. Kurt
