[Mailman-Developers] Fwd: suggested improvement for Mailman's bounce processing

[Brad Knowles]

At 10:59 PM -0700 2006-08-14, John W. Baxter wrote:

>  Unfortunately, the would-be posters then have to be notified of the message
>  status.  Thus, while you're reducing moderator workload, the backscatter
>  problem isn't solved.

No, it's not solved.  However, by putting a semi-intelligent time 
limiter on the thing (i.e., no more than one response per address per 
day, or somesuch), the backscatter problem is at least contained to a 
more tolerable level.

And this does get back to the balance thing that I was taking about 
earlier.  If doing your best to make sure that people know that their 
message was rejected, or held for moderation, or whatever, is more 
important to you (and your community), then you've got the option to 
make those sorts of things happen.  If eliminating all possibility of 
backscatter is more important, you've got the option to do that, too.


The point here is to increase your options available to you, and to 
also try to help reduce the load on list moderators and list owners 
to a more tolerable level.

At least, that's the idea.  I'm hoping that the reality will live up 
to this theory.

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