On 5/26/06, Christopher Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I agree in part. My site hosts over 500 lists and has about 100,000 > subscribers. By default, all new lists are set to Reject messages from > "non-members" and sends them a message indicating that either their address > has changed, they are sending from a different account, or they really > aren't a member. Normally, I would think that simply discarding messages > from "non-members" would be the best tactic. However, there were some > situations with management on my own staff where a list owner subscribed an > email address alias for someone in management. Since the alias was not the > actual address that they were sending from, the message was discarded > without any alert to the sender, so she assumed it was sent. > > On occasion, when I know there are problems with address aliases, I just > add the non-subscribed alias as a non-member that can post, or as a > subscriber set to 'no mail'. But, for so many lists and subscribers, there > is the potential for problems with other lists. So, I set the default, let > the list owners modify it if they like, and deal with the bandwidth issue > and the fact that the system is actually making a contact with the address, > many which are forged. > > > On 5/25/06, Peter C.S. Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Thus spake Brad Knowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, circa 5/25/2006 9:54 > > AM: > > > Generally speaking, the recommended solution is to automatically > > > reject such messages -- which informs the sender, and allows them to > > > take appropriate action. > > > > In the old days, this was certainly true, but today, when 70-80% of all > > emails on the internet are spam, you may easily find that rejecting all > > those messages will (a) eat up a lot of your internet bandwidth, and (b) > > > > exacerbate the problem by telling the "sender" of the message -- which > > will, > > 90% of the time, be a forged address -- that "their" mail was rejected. > > > > I have a handful of lists set to "reject," but most are set to discard. > > In > > my opinion, the poster should be subscribed to the list and set to > > receive > > mail; otherwise they should have no expectation that their message was > > distributed. > > > > peter > > > > -- > > Peter C.S. Adams > > Director of Information and Communication Technologies > > College of Public and Community Service, UMass Boston > > "Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; > > enemy to none." -- Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------ > > Mailman-Users mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users > > Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py > > Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ > > > > Unsubscribe: > > http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/adamsca%40gmail.com > > > > Security Policy: > > http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp<http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp> > > > > > > -- > Christopher Adams > [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
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