On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 11:56:16PM -0700, Satya wrote: > 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...
Note that the attribs are slightly hosed there; that's Chuq. > 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. The mechanism is "permit the hooking in of a method for preventing spam from reaching the list", I think. > Of course, that causes one person's miscalculation to be another > person's (times n) headache. Networks are like that. Yep. > >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? Vger. > (Insert Picard's speech about drawing the line here.) That was *precisely* what was running through my mind; only saw that movie 5 days ago. > >> 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*? One. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] Member of the Technical Staff Baylink RFC 2100 The Suncoast Freenet The Things I Think Tampa Bay, Florida http://baylink.pitas.com +1 727 647 1274 "If you don't have a dream; how're you gonna have a dream come true?" -- Captain Sensible, The Damned (from South Pacific's "Happy Talk") _______________________________________________ Mailman-Developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman-21/listinfo/mailman-developers
