At 10:15 -0800 2/20/2002, Chuq Von Rospach wrote: >That, basically, allows us to stuff mailtos somewhere pointing to an address >you can mail to to report site failures. I'll even go farther and say that >address can simply be on a web page, not linked to a Mailto, and if you >really, reallly want, obscure it further as a JPG or something. But I think >that's all overkill, given that spammers now automatically spam >root/postmaster/etc on domains anyway.
Which (as the reader of many of those, and as the person who adds content filters) I find amusing: they deliberately attract the attention of the one most likely to do something. I guess it makes sense when they think about individual's machines sitting there accepting mail; it doesn't make sense when then send to a server which serves lots of users. It reminds me of the punt returner signalling for a fair catch when the ball will come down near the goal line. What that says to the onrushing troops is "ignore me and my teammates: we can't hurt you anyhow...go after the ball and keep it this side of the line." Exactly what the troops' coach wants them to be told. >So I recommend this: > >You no longer advertise admin's real addresses. Instead, you advertise a >feedback that sends messages to the admin, to discourage mailing directly. >A year ago, I probably would have insisted on SOME kind of email contact >point, but frankly -- the percentage of users who can't use a web page is >pretty much zero now. [Good justification snipped.] I think you're on to something, Chuq. It also helps those admins who prefer to use a role address rather than a personal one, as things stand now. Saves inventing yet another of those which isn't specially handled by the MTA/Mailman combination. --John -- John Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Port Ludlow, WA, USA _______________________________________________ Mailman-Developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-developers