Re: [exim] Proposed change to list moderation handling

--On 16 October 2006 19:54:00 -0500 Dave Pooser <dave-exim@???>
wrote:

>> Perhaps I misunderstood the earlier
>> poster's intention; I thought he just meant the auto-response to
>> non-members
>
> Right. Imagine, if you will, that there is an evil spammer who wants to
> advertise the latest miracle drug to 100,000 of his closest friends.
> However, he is an altruistic sort who prefers to perform this sort of
> public service anonymously, so he forges a name to his email-- say,
> joe.blow@???. Imagine poor Joe's surprise when he finds his inbox
> clogged with autoreplies telling him, among other things, that the Exim
> users list has moderated his submission.
>
> That is the concern, and a fakereject+store-for-moderation would be the
> ideal solution.

Depending, of course, on how many hundreds of spammers decide to advertise
their products to your list. Eventually, you can't moderate your list any
more because you don't have the resources.

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Ian Eiloart
IT Services, University of Sussex