On Apr 16, 2007, at 10:36 PM, kalin mintchev wrote: > i'm really tired of clients batching over the subscription > confirmation: > "but why?", "nobody will do it and we goanna lose people?", "it's to > difficult", "can we do it without it?!", "our list is special..", etc, > etc...
I agree that for many lists and many users the confirmation step is a point where legitimate subscription attempts fail. But ... List bombing (maliciously subscribing people to lots of lists) does happen. (I have been a victim of it several times). What I've seen is that known anti-spammers get their addresses added to lists that don't do proper confirmation. Maybe not this year, or maybe not the next year, but it is almost certain that you will end up getting yourself blacklisted. Anyway, I see from a later post of yours that you found out how to do the configuration you want. Please consider that step carefully. Also look at enabling VERP_CONFIRMATIONS, which will result in having confirmation requests go out with a more helpful Subject header. You need to configure your MTA appropriately for VERP (basically handling "username+whatever" local parts correctly). -j -- Jeffrey Goldberg http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/ ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org 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/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp
