[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
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