On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 14:23:14 PM -0000, mike scott
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Mike, that well known opponent of OOo, sends to [EMAIL PROTECTED] assorted
> mail queries with assorted different topics, all purporting to be
> from an unsubscribed user [EMAIL PROTECTED], shall we say. Easy
> peasy.
> Nice people on the list submit various answers to the queries.
> Autoresponder forwards answers for each query to mfioretti.
Oh, now I see what you meant, thanks. But I think you're wrong to
think that this has anything to do with my proposal. Nothing at all
forbids any "well known opponent of OOo" from mailbombing, as you
describe, *today*. The fact that email addresses are trivial to forge
is true without autoresponders. And I have never said that moderation
should be eliminated. If mailbombing happens, moderators (which sits
BEFORE the autoresponder) have the same tools and possibilities to
stop it with or without even knowing that the autoresponder exists.
Today, should such a mailbombinh happen, mfioretti would probably
receive MORE than one copy of each reply, sent manually, AND all the
subscribers would be mightily pissed off from tons of dumb "forwarding
this to unsubscribed poster" duplicates which seems so smart to
send. Coding the autoresponder to not send more than N notifications
per week, day, whatever, to the same address would also be trivial.
If the one you describe is the only scenario, the autoresponder would
_diminish_ its negative effects.
Marco
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