Re: OT: Subscribed addresses with auto-reply anti-spam systems

[Hal Vaughan <hal@thresholddigital.com>]

On Tuesday 03 January 2006 02:40 am, Andrew Vaughan wrote:
> On Tue, 3 Jan 2006 17:52, Hal Vaughan wrote:
> > I would think it would work better to write a script that automatically
> > cross references the DU and DD lists (since this jerk seems to be on
> > both), and generate a one time email (like, "PLease confirm you are
> > subscribed to this list!"), with each e-mail having a different ID number
> > in it (or the ID in the subject).  Then when the e-mail gets bounced back
> > or whatever, it would be a snap to match it with the person forwarding
> > it.
>
> Cord Beermann - a Debian listmaster - already sent such an email to
> debian-user subscribers in December, the email address was in the name and
> message id.

I figured somebody had tried something like that or come up with a more clever 
idea, but I mentioned it, just in case...

So I take it that e-mail was not forwarded to the offending address?

> He believes
>
>     > Someone who is subscribed to d-devel forwards the mails to
>     > petsupermarket. petsupermarket itself is not subscribed to any of our
>     > mailinglists.
>
> Note Fedora mailing lists have also had the same problems apparently.

At least that should provide another point of cross reference.

If I had a better idea, I'd throw it out, but I'm sure those working with the 
lists have given much more thought to it than I have.

Hal