Jim Ramsay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > <rant> > > You know, I wish there was an easy way to figure out where an email is > going to be coming from for most automated sources. > > Would it be that hard to put on every web form "You should expect an > email to come from <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> after you press > Submit..." > > It would be great to have this information BEFORE I put in my email > address so I can give them a SENDER-tagged address, or at least before > they send a message so I don't have to surf my pending queue. > > In cases like gmane it may be tricky to find out before the first > message you send to them, but in the case of mailing lists (I usually > sign up using some web interface or after reading some instruction > online) or web forms (phpBB for example!) this would be an awesome > feature for anyone using C/R spamblockers. > > For example, is it possible to change, on the > http://tmda.net/lists/listinfo/tmda-users page, in the "Subscribing to > tmda-users" section, the following: > > Subscribe to tmda-users by filling out the following form. You will be > sent email from <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> requesting confirmation, to prevent > others from gratuitously subscribing you. > > Why don't more people do this? I think the default mailman / > majordomo / whatever subscription pages should include this out of > courtesy for the user. > > </rant>
I agree that this would be a useful thing to have. How about making your case to the Mailman developers? (gmane.mail.mailman.devel) _____________________________________________ tmda-users mailing list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://tmda.net/lists/listinfo/tmda-users
