Wow, no responses at all?.. Interesting... so either nobody uses sender tags, or nobody wants to take part in a friendly discussion about it? 8-P
--- David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This message is not about a problem I am having, but just a topic > that > I wanted to open for discussion. I figure asking this in the list may > also provide answers to other people who may be curious about the > same > question... > > I'm kind of curious about something and would like to ask for > opinions > about this since I can see two different ways to accomplish the same > thing, but I want some feedback about what other people's preferences > are and why one option might be better/worse than the other. > > I wanted to create an address that could be used so that I know that > mail will only be accepted from a particular address. Here's a real > world example... I sign up at RedHat Network to get security and > product bulletins, and I need to provide my e-mail address. I know > that > these bulletins are sent from [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Now I can run "tmda-address -a [EMAIL PROTECTED]" and get a > sender tagged address that I can subscribe with... but I could also > simply add [EMAIL PROTECTED] to my whitelist. > > So my question is this: Why, and in which situations, is it a better > practice to use sender tagged addresses instead of whitelisting? > > I can imagine that if it's for purposes of a newsgroup, then it would > make sense that people in the newsgroup could not simply send a reply > directly to me if the address they see is a sender tagged address, > but > just the same if they aren't on the whitelist, they will get > challenged > anyhow. Not to mention that I need to be sure that I have the ability > to ensure that messages that I post to the newsgroup are always being > posted with "X-TMDA: [EMAIL PROTECTED]". And in the event > that I forget to add that line, the message gets sent with my real > e-mail address... and people will be challenged anyhow when they send > mail there. > > So... any feedback? Like I said, perhaps this might be a good thread > for the archives so that people in the future can have a source to > find > answers to this scenario. > > Thank you. > > David > > > __________________________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Platinum - Watch CBS' NCAA March Madness, live on your > desktop! > http://platinum.yahoo.com > _____________________________________________ > tmda-users mailing list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > http://tmda.net/lists/listinfo/tmda-users __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Platinum - Watch CBS' NCAA March Madness, live on your desktop! http://platinum.yahoo.com _____________________________________________ tmda-users mailing list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://tmda.net/lists/listinfo/tmda-users
