--On 8 August 2006 05:00:17 -0500 Brad Knowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> At 10:46 AM +0100 2006-08-08, Ian Eiloart quoted "Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED]" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >>> If people bounce a message every day for a couple weeks, I consider >>> their ISP broken enough to warrant unsubscription. >> >> In my case, it wasn't my ISP, or my server that was at fault. It was the >> message *senders* mail client that was constructing faulty headers. > > Right, but that's Yahoo. That's not Mailman. Mailman is unlikely to be > doing this sort of thing. If anything, it would most likely be scrubbing > the messages in order to remove illegal formatting. Really, Mailman is fixing up message header syntax? > I can understand the overall desire in this specific case, but I'm having > a hard time painting Mailman with that same brush, which would then > reasonably lead to a requirement to make significant changes to the > Mailman bounce handling scheme in order to try and guess as to what was > the real reason behind a particular type of bounce. > > > I'm not saying that this isn't something that we shouldn't at least look > at seriously, I'm just saying I don't quite buy this particular > motivation, at least not as it applies to Mailman. -- Ian Eiloart IT Services, University of Sussex _______________________________________________ Mailman-Developers mailing list Mailman-Developers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-developers Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-developers%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-developers/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp
