[Mailman-Users] Bounce issues with Yahoo

Greg Lindahl lindahl at pbm.com
Wed Mar 1 21:57:20 CET 2006


On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 12:52:39PM -0800, Dragon wrote:

> Why not disable those notification messages completely and discard the 
> incoming messages from nonmembers?

Because I have a lot of users with several email addresses who forget
which one they're subscribed as. I care about every posting.

> By silently discarding it, I am not confirming for them that there
> is a live e-mail address there and (hopefully) reducing the number
> of attempts to spam the address in the future.

Almost all of the spam I get has a faked return address, so this
reasoning does not apply.

-- greg



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