On 12/10/2009, [email protected] ([email protected]) wrote: > It would be great if Paul (or another moderator, if any) could be > directly asked to force-unsubscribe somebody, like "Michael > Considine" ([email protected]), who is bombing the users list > with demands to be unsubscribed.
Maybe he encountered the same problem I am encountering right now. I subscribed to the OOo users list from my work email address. We use an outsourced anti-spam service (webroot), and use their system for our outbound relay host. Well, webroot uses what is called BATV address tagging, to minimize/eliminate backscatter problems - and it works very well for this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bounce_Address_Tag_Validation Yes, the RFC is expired, but that is irrelevant - a LOT of people are starting to use it, or something similar. What this does is adds a unique tag to the envelope sender address, so that instead of a simple email address: [email protected] it looks like this: prvs=2588cf9233=local=example.com I am subscribed to literally dozens of lists with this address right now, and have been subscribed to hundreds using this address in the past 3 years we have been using them, and only encountered this kind of problem once a long time ago on some obscure list that I can't even remember what it was. The problem is, the OOo list software is ezmlm, which is brain-dead when it comes to BATV address tagging, and now I CANNOT UNSUBSCRIBE MYSELF. I assure you, I am *very* experienced with this kind of thing, so I know I am trying to unsub using the proper procedure. The problem is, the only method the OOo lists provide for unsubscribing is via email, and since every time I send an email from my work address, it has a different BATV tag, the unsub process fails - and since either ezmlm doesn't have a user web interface that would let me do this myself (like Mailman does), or the OOo list moms haven't enabled it, so I cannot do it through the web. The correct solution is for either ezmlm to be patched to accommodate BATV address tagging (we are NOT the only ones using it I assure you), or the OOo list moms should switch to a list manager that can handle it - like Mailman. I've seen how much backscatter this blocks, so I assure you, I wouldn't ask webroot to disable this feature even if they would, which I doubt. -- Best regards, Charles --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
