On Jul 16, 2002 at 22:44, Chuq Von Rospach wrote: >On 7/16/02 9:49 PM, "Jay R. Ashworth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>the policies up. Unless, of course, your policy is "you're screwed if you >post to my list, and good luck stopping the spammers". Which is, >effectively, what "make the owner of the mailbox handle it" does as a >policy. Although I doubt you'd phrase it quite that way... I wouldn't, but that would be my policy, yes. OTOH, no one pays me to run mailing lists. Again, it's the same thing: have the mechanism (I'm not even sure *which* mechanism(s) you're talking about now), let $foo decide the policy, where $foo iterates over the list of users. Of course, that causes one person's miscalculation to be another person's (times n) headache. Networks are like that. >>> But I'm not bitter. >> Naw. Not at all. I see no "bitter" here. >Heh. Wanna guarantee messages get bounced all over the place? Just use the >"V" word in an email. You know which one I mean. You'll set off alarms all "virus"? Something else? VD? What? >over the universe. It's more fun than running through a parking lot seeing Oooh, cool! >I love to say "if all you have his a hammer, everything is a nail". In this >case, email is our hammer, and mail lists aren't always appropriate for >hammering, but have you seen what those idiots did to our screwdriver? I >ain't picking that up, not without tongs and a blowtorch. But now they want to borrow the hammer, too. (Insert Picard's speech about drawing the line here.) >> My sister runs a page that's always in the top 3 on Google in her >> *One* piece of spam. >I am amazed. So am I. I mean, *one*? -- Satya. <URL:http://satya.virtualave.net/> Could you continue your petty bickering ? I find it most intriguing. _______________________________________________ Mailman-Developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman-21/listinfo/mailman-developers
