On Sun, 31 Jul 2016 14:01:26 -0600 Michael Torrie <torr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > So I have to examine every address I reply to or deal with the > > bounce message later. Way to move your spam problem to someone > > else. > > I've never had this problem. I use the mailing list side of things > and I reply to the list and I don't have bounce issues. Besides
Fine for you. I actually prefer to have people explicitly reply to me (and the list) because then it winds up in my INBOX instead of the Python list folder. If I am busy I might skim over the Python folder but I always read my INBOX. The mail will stand out better. If I preferred everything in my Python folder I would just change the filter order. The idea is that as much as possible everyone should be able to get everything that they want. > that, he's not using email; he's using usenet which has never > required a valid email address, real or fake. To demand he use a > real email address is as silly as that guy that lambasts people on > this list for not using real names. That's really not the same thing at all. In fact, I don't even care if the address even works, as long as it doesn't bounce. If I didn't want to get replies I would use n...@vex.net which gets silently dropped and the address suggests that it will not be delivered. But I absolutely don't care if someone uses a fake name. I agree that such a restriction would be silly not to mention totally unenforceable. > That said, I wish he'd stop posting his arguments here on this list as > he clearly doesn't use Python for anything, and hasn't used Python for > any real amount of coding. He has no vested interest in Python so why > should his opinions matter to us? Agreed. That's why I have stopped talking to and listening to him. > As for spam, I hardly think spambots trolling Usenet are as effective > these days as they once were. And most people's anti-spam filters are > pretty good. Besides that, those of us posting to the mailing list > side of things get our real email addresses copied out into Usenet > and I haven't noticed any change in spam levels. Ditto. -- D'Arcy J.M. Cain System Administrator, Vex.Net http://www.Vex.Net/ IM:da...@vex.net VoIP: sip:da...@vex.net -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
