Re: Should we keep this list subscriber-only?

[Hans-Bernhard B. <br...@ph...>]

On Sun, 6 Jun 2004, Dave Denholm wrote:

> One problem with automatically sending back a reply is that if
> most of the incoming mail is junk, we are adding to the problem of
> unsolicited mails bouncing around the network.

Fulll ACK.  These days, completely useless "Virus found in your mail"
notices (including the particularly helpful ones in Finnish, Frensh and
whatever language you can imagine) already make up the majority of what
junk mail actually ends up in my inbox, after the virus scanner and the
spam assassin have done their job.  We *don't* want to add to that if we
can possibly help it.  And with the current setup of our SF mailing lists,
I think we're doing the right thing on that front.

> One game that people seem to play is sending mail to one list with a
> from field of another list. 

I'm quite sure it's not people who are playing this game, but clueless
mail worms and their equally clueless cousins, the address harvesters used
to fill spammers' mailing lists.

-- 
Hans-Bernhard Broeker (br...@ph...)
Even if all the snow were burnt, ashes would remain.