[Mailman-Developers] AOL's requirements for spam complaints

[Chuq Von Rospach]

On Jan 29, 2004, at 6:03 PM, moron at industrial.org wrote:

> To enable custom headers for each message at least partially destroys 
> the
> intent of a mailing list - efficient delivery of messages.

Sorry, I don't buy this argument. If you have two choices: use more CPU 
time and network, or improve the end-user experience, choosing "less 
work for the computer" is almost always the wrong answer.

> Instead
> of injecting one message to hundreds of recipients, you would be 
> injecting
> hundreds of unique messages.
>

Yes, you are. And fortunately, it's not the 70's any more, and the 
resource limitations that caused those design decisions are gone. We 
aren't on 9600 baud dialups any more, for instance, or trying to run 
large mailing list on 286 class machines. well, I'm sure there are a 
few of those still out there, but that's no reason to hobble the rest 
of the universe with designs aimed at the last century.