March 1, 2006
12:57 p.m.
On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 12:52:39PM -0800, Dragon wrote:
Why not disable those notification messages completely and discard the incoming messages from nonmembers?
Because I have a lot of users with several email addresses who forget which one they're subscribed as. I care about every posting.
By silently discarding it, I am not confirming for them that there is a live e-mail address there and (hopefully) reducing the number of attempts to spam the address in the future.
Almost all of the spam I get has a faked return address, so this reasoning does not apply.
-- greg