Kjetil Torgrim Homme wrote:
>On Thu, 2006-08-10 at 15:36 +0200, Stian Jordet wrote:
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>>I wonder what people do when they get spam from maillinglists. I usually
>>reject it at SMTP time, but then several maillinglists unsubsribe you.
>>Especially linux-kernel does that.
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>that's just broken, you shouldn't be unsubscribed unless you reject
>messages *consistenly* for some time. ideally, the mailing list system
>should send a "is this address valid?" probe before unsubscribing.
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That's what I've seen. I have a host of lists i'm subbed to at any one
moment, and some gradually-increasingly-harsh antispam checks on our
server. Every now and then i get a "Hey, anyone home?!" query from some
list or other.
The notice specifies that 1) something bounced, but 2) if you're reading
this notice everything's cool. So endusers who happen to not have root
access to the mailserver won't be alarmed either :).
As per Kjetil, no list should dump you on one failure or bad response.
I'd check with the list admin(s). Maybe they're incredibly traumatized
from a wave of out-of-offices or something...
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Rob Munsch
Solutions For Progress IT
www.solutionsforprogress.com
