Author: Marc Sherman Date: To: exim-users Subject: Re: [exim] Proposed change to list moderation handling
John Robinson wrote: >
> Err, "unsubscribed sender address"? Perhaps I misunderstood the earlier
> poster's intention; I thought he just meant the auto-response to
> non-members should include more/better instructions on how to subscribe
> and a request not to resend, not a way of posting without membership.
>
> I may still be being very dense, of course :-)
Yes, you still are. :) Sending _any_ auto-response is a bad thing,
because the sender address of the spam (which is the vast majority of
posts by unsubscribed addresses) is almost always forged, so that
auto-response is backscatter.
