[Distutils] Preemptive Apology for Volume of Mail

[Noah Kantrowitz]

On Jun 4, 2013, at 12:14 AM, Chris Withers wrote:

> On 04/06/2013 07:45, Noah Kantrowitz wrote:
>> 
>>>> As someone also in the top percentile of package maintainers I understand your annoyance, but just make a filter for donald at python.org for the day or something. The vast majority of PyPI users have only one package so asking us to derail the sending (probably resulting in having to begin again) is unhelpful. If the only cost to us all is hitting Ctrl-A Delete, I welcome progress with open arms.
>>> 
>>> Are you not concerned that various bits of python.org involved in this process are going to start getting hit by RBLs and other spam filtering that will cause problems down the line as a result of all this noise?
>> 
>> No, because only a very small number of people are going to be getting more than a handful of these, and any user with 50+ packages is hopefully enough of a power-user to not fly off the handle.
> 
> That's not what I'm referring to; how much mail has actually been sent?
> 
> MTAs end up being blacklisted automatically by ISPs and RBLs if they heuristically look like they're spewing spam. It's what companies like MailChimp and co spend their lives working around.

Thanks to running many very very large mailing lists, I can promise you another few thousand messages exiting our servers is a non-issue.

--Noah

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