Re: in case you missed this from ponik

[Brian Dessent <brian@dessent.net>]

Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote:

> Blocking his posts to the list while the listmaster tries to help
> him could help -- if the listmaster has the time to do that, of course!
> That would save a lot of bandwidth (the offending posts *and* the
> discussion about them would at least not last too long), but this can't
> be easily done automatically [1].

It seems to me that the most common problem with mailing lists occurs
when someone receives messages to an address of which they are unaware. 
The incident with Declan McCullagh/Politech/well.com and
Fleishman-Hillard is a good example (see
<http://www.politechbot.com/p-03395.html> for details.)

To me, the best solution to this would be to customize the tagline on
each outgoing message, so that it would read something like "you are
subscribed as wankstain@luser.org, to remove send a message _from that
address_ to xxx@example.com with the magic word."  That way, the
clueless would have a fighting chance at getting off the list.  If they
are still incapable, perhaps they will include the tagline in their
quoted reply so that others can take the appropriate action.

I don't know how hard or easy this would be to implement, but it sounds
nontrivial.  I suppose there are some privacy / archival issues, such as
the desire to scrub mailing list archives of email addresses to foil
spambots.

Brian


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