[uClibc] Change in Mailing List Posting Policy

Charlie Brady charlieb-uclibc at e-smith.com
Tue Jun 22 18:00:36 UTC 2004


On Mon, 21 Jun 2004, Kevin P. Fleming wrote:

> 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.

The answer here is to do the rejection at the SMTP level. SPAM agents 
won't generate a bounce if they are refused, but real MTAs will. Doesn't 
help for relayed spam, but that's becoming relatively less prevalent.

--
Charlie





More information about the uClibc mailing list