Re: in case you missed this from ponik
On Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 10:39:02PM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote:
> 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.
>
But that information is available within the list emails, albeit hidden
away in the "full" headers. Maybe better education on how to find and
examine email headers in these sort of situations is in order. In any
case, idiots who auto-reply to every list mail they receive until they
get their way are not easily defeated by any technological solution.
- Chris
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