On Fri, Nov 26, 2004 at 10:20:19PM +0200, Alexander Klimov wrote:
Hi.
On Thu, 25 Nov 2004, Atro Tossavainen wrote:
First of all, would everybody please post from a valid address.
Probably it is for some other list, but is not it impossible to send from the
address which is not subscribed?
Even when that is the case, this doesn't stop you from subscribing to
lists from two addresses. If you can ask the list not to send you
mail (many lists offer this for vacation times, or because people want
to be able to post from multiple addresses without receiving multiple
copies of the messages), then your posting address needs only to be
valid when you subscribe. If you operate your own mail server, or can
arrange it in other ways, you can subscribe from the address you want
to use for posting, and then delete (or otherwise invalidate) that
address on your server.
This is a very effective way of dealing with spam, which often comes
from people who harvest addresses from popular mailing lists (such as
this one). I use this technique myself, though not on this particular
list. I understand the author's sentiment, but I think it's not up to
him to decide whether posters want to be reachable by the public at
large (or spammers). That's up to each user to decide for themselves.
Also, if somebody feels it is necessary to operate autoresponders of
any kind, would they please make sure the autoresponder won't reply
to messages from mailing lists.
I agree that it is better if people turn off vocation and similiar
but probably it is unrealistic to expect this. Fortunately, there is
simple work around: create a temporary address, subscribe it to the
list and use it for the list exclusively so that everything you got
which does not belong to the list (check List-Id or List-Post) can
be safely forwarded to /dev/null (this include autoreplies as well
as spam).
And also includes private replies... The effect is no different than
what I described above. Where possible, my method is slightly better,
because it prevents the mail from being delivered at all, saving
bandwidth and computing time. Not all lists allow for this, however.
--
Derek D. Martin
http://www.pizzashack.org/
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