[Mailman-Developers] Replybot change proposed

[Phil Barnett]

On Friday 17 May 2002 05:50 pm, you wrote:

> I propose that the Replybot not send responses to any message marked
> "Precedence: bulk" unless there is a corresponding "X-Ack: yes"
> header.
>
> I also propose that the -request robot discard all similarly
> formatted messages.
>
> I think this will drastically cut down on the number of bogus
> replybot storms, and vulnerability of robot addresses being
> subscribed.
>
> There's not much we can do about broken replybots, but we can at
> least guard against properly written ones.
>
> Does anybody have any objections?

Makes sense to me.