On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 05:18:24PM -0400, Derek Martin wrote: > > The reason I bring it up is that it's a spam fighting technique that > > doesn't make suspected spam disappear, but disallows delivery. So a > > false positive means someone gets a bounce, which alerts them to the > > problem. > > Which is highly annoying for people who legitimately want to send you > mail, but aren't already whitelisted. I personally hate it, and > refuse to subject people I know to such irritation.
Well, I'm probably not going to change your mind. Suffice it to say that I get mail from people I don't know, due to putting my email address on my web pages, etc., and I don't get any complaints. Any mail servers that even approximate proper behavior will whitelist without problem. > > For your current setup, you might consider adding a reply-to header > > pointing at the list so that mails don't go to the bogus address by > > default for humans. > > You will note that such reply-to already exists, and has for a rather > long time... :) Seems to be there in *this* email, but the one I replied to originally didn't have it, or mutt ignored it, or something. Anyway... good! -- Darrin Chandler | Phoenix BSD User Group | MetaBUG [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://phxbug.org/ | http://metabug.org/ http://www.stilyagin.com/ | Daemons in the Desert | Global BUG Federation
