--On Saturday, March 29, 2008 8:58 AM +0900 "Stephen J. Turnbull" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > However you know that it's a mortal sin when you end up on several > > blacklists (and rightly so!) for having sent backscatter to > > innocent bystanders. > > Oh, brother! Look up "vigilante", and meditate on the definition > until you realize that those are the words of a vigilante. Is Wikipedia's definition acceptable? > A vigilante is a person who ignores due process of law and enacts his own > form of justice when they deem the response of the authorities to be > insufficient. I see nothing wrong with that. Where I live, self-defense is acceptable. Note that black lists don't block anything. They just report. It's like a web page that lists some group that the author thinks meets some criteria. Others can then use the black lists they trust to block unwanted traffic. I hardly consider either action to be unreasonable. > [...] blacklisting some poor Ubuntu user, who just installs Mailman and > creates a few lists because it says on the homepage that it tries to > conform to the RFCs on mailing lists and provides some antispam features, > and expects that it will therefore DTRT. [...] may be necessary, there's > no way it's right. Is it wrong for me to choose to not accept his traffic? Does the hypothetical "poor Ubuntu user" have a right to set policy on my server? _______________________________________________ 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
