At 4:34 PM -0500 2006-03-01, Christopher X. Candreva wrote:
Like most people who've been running mailing lists for 20+ years, I
Funny, I would have guessed this was your first, comming from a marketing background with the selfishness you are showing.
Selfishness? I think you might want to look in the mirror first.have strong opinions about list policy. Please address the mechanism I asked for instead of seeking to discuss the policy issues.
Would you like to provide the IP of your mailman server, so we can block just that and not your whole domain ?
We run python.org this way. How about we just ban you from all the lists on python.org?
Sorry, when you get 1,000 AN HOUR of autoreplies for mail you didn't send you look at it differently.
When you get 2GB worth of syslog data in less than a 24 hour period of time, or when you've worked at a site handling tens of millions of e-mail messages per day, or when you've been personally blamed for taking out all e-mail across the entire Internet and resulting in the bankruptcies of more than a few companies as well as some personal bankruptcies as well, you develop a certain perspective on things.
But you want operational, put SpamAssassin or some other filter in front so you don't reply to spam at all.
Just because you run SpamAssassin (or any other anti-spam filtering system) doesn't mean that some spam won't slip through. Run a large enough site, and when even a relatively small percentage slips through, you're still talking about large amounts of bogus stuff that you've got to try to deal with.
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