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Re: wishlist: spamhaus SBL+XBL on d.o accounts



On Aug 28, Don Armstrong <don@donarmstrong.com> wrote:

> On Sat, 28 Aug 2004, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> > Or at least, *please* allow disabling own's @debian.org address.  I
> > do not user mine, never did and never will, so all it does is
> > collect spam.
> You may not, but people tend to expect to be able to contact Debian
> Developers through their debian.org address.
Well, I suppose that after the first time they would learn that this
is not a valid expectation.
It's not like my address is hard to find anyway...

> [Or, at the very least, I
> tend to expect to be able to contact people by the address listed in
> db.debian.org.]
This looks easy enough to fix.

> Of course, if you really don't like your debian.org address, why not
> just discard the email?
Exactly because some people may try to write there, and I would like
them to receive a DSA explaining that the address does not exist.
I do not consider silently discarding mail an acceptable anti-spam
strategy.

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ciao, |
Marco | [7702 rifYLllT.6C9E]

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