[uClibc] Change in Mailing List Posting Policy

[Kevin P. Fleming]

Bennett Todd wrote:

> 2004-06-20T13:08:10 Alexandre Oliva:
> 
>>On Jun 20, 2004, Alexandre Oliva <aoliva at redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>>>Sending an automated rejection e-mail shouldn't be too hard
>>
>>And is exactly what I got for cross-posting to the busybox list
>>that I'm not subscribed to :-)
> 
> 
> Unless I'm misunderstanding something, there might be a downside to
> such a config. spammers routinely forge not only headers but also
> the envelope sender. Won't such bounces be sent to the victims of
> such joe-job spams, adding to their pain?

Yes, this will happen, and is commonly referred to as "collateral spam". 
  If you read any of the GNU autotools lists, you see this stuff all the 
time; today there were even messages where autoconf at gnu.org was listed 
as the "envelope sender", and the "envelope receiver" was another GNU 
autotools list, so the "you are not subscribed" message was sent back to 
a _mailing list_, thus compounding the issue.

This is a tough problem to solve; real people who want to post as 
non-subscribers should be given the privilege of being informed why 
their message wasn't accepted, but they are a small fraction of the 
non-subscriber messages, and the rest will generate collateral spam if 
there is any type of automatic notification.