[e2e] latest spate of cruft postings to e2e
Joe Touch
touch at ISI.EDU
Thu Nov 6 14:45:17 PST 2003
Perry E.Metzger wrote:
> Joe Touch <touch at ISI.EDU> writes:
>
>>I appreciate that whitelisting is harder on the receive end of a list
>>(you can still do it, and will end up accumulating some of the list
>>anyway). The content filters we use are not perfect, but neither is
>>whitelisting.
>
> It has been years since a spam went to one of my mailing lists run on
> a "subscribers post only" basis.
But it hasn't been that long since I tried to post to one and had to
subscribe to post. At which point I gave up, since I don't always want -
or need - to subscribe to every list to which I might want to
participate briefly.
That's the behavior we're trying to avoid by the list configuration.
> Can you say the same for your mailing
> lists?
>
> I appreciate that you will never change your position, however, and I
> don't want to add noise on top of spam.
>
> Perry
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