Re: Can we please refuse mail to the list from list addresses?

From: "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>
To: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>, Andrew Sullivan <ajs(at)crankycanuck(dot)ca>, pgsql-www(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Can we please refuse mail to the list from list addresses?
Date: 2007-11-27 20:54:08
Message-ID: 6D7129331D9626957B846964@ganymede.hub.org
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- --On Tuesday, November 27, 2007 12:02:56 -0800 "Joshua D. Drake"
<jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> wrote:

> * If you are not subscribed it never makes it to the moderator. I
> don't think it is unreasonable that if you want to send to -announce
> that you will also receive from -announce for example.

I won't disagree, but that would break the usenet gateway, I fear ...

> * If you send email to an invalid user/alias multiple times within a
> particular threshold your ip is banned automatically for 30 days
> (something that CMD is working on for their server).

Hrmmm, now that's an interesting one ... are you implementing it within some
sort of policy server similar to greylisting, or some other way?

> * The ability to forward messages that do get through to "something"
> that allows automatic blacklisting so we never see them again.

That one I dislike, only because I could see it somehow being abused :(

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