Jo Rhett wrote:
- Don't create backscatter aliases for subscribe/unsubscribe/etc by
default. Nearly everyone uses web based signup.
Do you have data to back up this assertion?
Even if we wanted to do this, it is non-trivial. All confirmation messages and their templates and translations would have to be changed to remove references to confirmation by email.
- Discard or hold messages from non-subscribers by default.
The Defaults.py setting for DEFAULT_GENERIC_NONMEMBER_ACTION has been Hold from the beginning.
Perhaps you are thinking of the respond_to_post_requests setting.
Do you object to any response at all, or just to responses that include the original message text? If the former, then you must object to DSNs from MTAs as well. If the latter, that is planned to be addressed in Mailman 2.2.
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