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From: Christopher Faylor <cgf@redhat.com>
To: Jason Molenda <jason@molenda.com>
Cc: overseers@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [MAILER-DAEMON@sources.redhat.com: failure notice]
Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2000 06:08:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20001107223844.A23535@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20001107172410.B6458@shell17.ba.best.com>

On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 05:24:10PM -0800, Jason Molenda wrote:
>I wouldn't worry much about spammers who are RBL'ed getting clever
>enough to subscribe to a list before spamming.  That seems pretty
>unlikely for now.

I agree.  So this could be the best of all possible worlds, then, isn't
it?  We could get the benefit of spam blocking without impacting our
mailing list users.

This probably means that we can get rid of the whitelist, too.  People
could put themselves on the whitelist just by subscribing.

cgf

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From: Christopher Faylor <cgf@redhat.com>
To: Jason Molenda <jason@molenda.com>
Cc: overseers@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [MAILER-DAEMON@sources.redhat.com: failure notice]
Date: Tue, 07 Nov 2000 19:38:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20001107223844.A23535@redhat.com> (raw)
Message-ID: <20001107193800.V8z9I578a5TiU6X4DdouhJO0vVhVH7Ky8HhC4YoCCEw@z> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20001107172410.B6458@shell17.ba.best.com>

On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 05:24:10PM -0800, Jason Molenda wrote:
>I wouldn't worry much about spammers who are RBL'ed getting clever
>enough to subscribe to a list before spamming.  That seems pretty
>unlikely for now.

I agree.  So this could be the best of all possible worlds, then, isn't
it?  We could get the benefit of spam blocking without impacting our
mailing list users.

This probably means that we can get rid of the whitelist, too.  People
could put themselves on the whitelist just by subscribing.

cgf

  parent reply	other threads:[~2000-12-30  6:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-12-30  6:08 [MAILER-DAEMON@sourceware.cygnus.com: " Ian Lance Taylor
2000-11-07 10:10 ` Ian Lance Taylor
2000-12-30  6:08 ` Jason Molenda
2000-11-07 15:22   ` Jason Molenda
2000-12-30  6:08   ` [MAILER-DAEMON@sources.redhat.com: " Christopher Faylor
2000-11-07 16:46     ` Christopher Faylor
2000-12-30  6:08     ` Jason Molenda
2000-11-07 17:25       ` Jason Molenda
2000-12-30  6:08       ` Christopher Faylor [this message]
2000-11-07 19:38         ` Christopher Faylor
2000-12-30  6:08         ` Jason Molenda
2000-11-07 19:43           ` Jason Molenda
2002-01-03  8:29 Craig Rodrigues
2002-07-25  9:08 Zack Weinberg
2002-11-19 12:38 Roland McGrath
2002-11-19 13:36 ` Christopher Faylor
2002-11-19 13:38   ` Roland McGrath
2002-11-19 14:02     ` Christopher Faylor
2002-11-19 13:39 ` Jason Molenda
2003-01-20 17:06 Daniel Jacobowitz
2003-12-17  8:45 Robert Schiele
2003-12-17 15:40 ` Christopher Faylor

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