[Mailman-Developers] Crypto-sign to post

[Barry Warsaw]

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On Nov 6, 2006, at 6:59 AM, Ian Eiloart wrote:

> This can be useful if enabled for specific domains - for example,  
> we'd use
> it for our own domain. However, if you blindly respond to spam with
> confirmation messages, you'll be generating collateral spam. That'll
> already get you blacklisted with spamcop. So, I'm in favour if it's
> implemented carefully.

This is a much more general problem with replybots.  Mailman already  
tries to be very careful about when and how it auto-responds to  
unsolicited queries.  We're probably not doing the best job we can  
here, so my plan is to build in a more general "governor" subsystem  
and route all autoresponses through that.  I agree that we need to be  
very very careful about the balance between helpfulness and spamminess.

- -Barry

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