On Tuesday 16 July 2002 13:58, Chuq Von Rospach wrote:
It's a thoughtful post, and includes many of the things I've been contemplating myself, but I just had one thing to add about the list management software becoming the arbiter of replies.
Are we hitting a point where mail list servers have to act as blind front ends for all of the subscribers, where replies are processed by those servers, and the server then takes on the job of acting as a troll-exterminator and spam blocker? And what does that really mean for things like Mailman?
What would keep a spammer from using the reply mechanism to shuttle replies back as if they were individual replies?
I think that something like this would also need spam assassin and maybe even heuristics to help out.