[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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