Re: [Exim] Off topic: How do you deal with MLM abuse?

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Auteur: Dave C.
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À: michael
CC: exim-users
Sujet: Re: [Exim] Off topic: How do you deal with MLM abuse?

There is an excellent guide at http://maps.vix.com/manage.html


On 15 Nov 2000 michael@??? wrote:

> As this is off topic, I ask to send replies right to me. I will summarize
> the answers, if there is interest.
>
> We all know that much spam looks like a newsletter/mailing list, that you
> subscribed. Recently, I saw many real mailing lists that don't feature
> address verification. That makes them suitable for abuse and it annoys
> other people, if someone types in a wrong address and the victim suddenly
> is subscribed to the list. It is getting an increasingly annoying
> problem here and the responsible admins refuse to verify addresses,
> because supposedly customers have a problem to answer the subscription
> request mail. The number of these lists seems to explode.
>
> How do you deal with this problem? Is there a recommended practice for
> MLMs, possibly even described in a RFC? Something that can be printed out
> to hit it on certain postmasters heads (hard)? :-/
>
> Michael
>
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