--On Saturday, March 29, 2008 3:51 PM +0900 "Stephen J. Turnbull" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> If you equate self-defense with justice, you are wrong. Vigilantes go > beyond self-defense, and that's where they go wrong. We're quibbling over definitions. It's impossible to find agreement under such circumstances. > No, but he's going to do it anyway. The policy you want (unless > you've got something personal against him) is to never see spam and > backscatter, and to receive the valid mails that pass through his > server. You can't have that if you blacklist him. You can't have > that if you don't. FWIW, I use blacklists via SpamAssassin, invoked from a Sendmail milter, so it's not a black and white decision that relies on a single such list. A degree of consensus is required. It might be straightforward to cook up some SA rules that recognize mailman backscatter and drop it, at the risk of dropping legitimate bounce notices. _______________________________________________ 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