[Mailman-Developers] before next release: disable backscatterin default installation

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Julian Mehnle writes:

 > There is no such document.

Jo Rhett keeps talking about "technical problems".  Well, conformance
to a published standard is a technical problem.  Deciding what to do
in the absence of such a standard is not, and you tell us there isn't
one.

But I can tell you this for sure: Ian Eiloart demonstrated a lot of
goodwill toward Mailman when he provided about a half-dozen URLs.  Can
you justify (to yourself!) doing less?

 > However you know that it's a mortal sin when you end up on several
 > blacklists (and rightly so!) for having sent backscatter to
 > innocent bystanders.

Oh, brother!  Look up "vigilante", and meditate on the definition
until you realize that those are the words of a vigilante.

The point is that there's a big difference between blacklisting
somebody like me, who has participated in this thread and followed
past discussions of backscatter, and blacklisting some poor Ubuntu
user, who just installs Mailman and creates a few lists because it
says on the homepage that it tries to conform to the RFCs on mailing
lists and provides some antispam features, and expects that it will
therefore DTRT.

The first is both necessary (hypothetically) and right (if necessary),
but while the second may be necessary, there's no way it's right.

Footnotes: 
[1]  http://www.trumanlibrary.org/buckstop.htm