Re: Proposed change for subscriptions...
On Thursday 16 March 2006 18:06, Tim Connors wrote:
> Paul Johnson <baloo@ursine.ca> said on Tue, 14 Mar 2006 11:16:45 -0800:
> > On Saturday 11 March 2006 01:00, Mike McCarty wrote:
> > > As an example, I'd like to propose that I be able to subscribe
> > > as a *poster* as Mike.McCarty@NOSPAMsbcglobal.net, while receiving
> > > the posts as Mike.McCarty@sbcglobal.net, which is my real
> > > e-mail address. No e-mail would be sent to the alias, which would
> > > be used only to permit posting, but would not be subscribed as
> > > a recipient.
> >
> > Email address munging is considered harmful. It serves only to hinder
> > legitimate replies to your email, and utterly ignores the very problem it
> > supposedly "resolves." Debian's lists are also open to all posters and
> > acccessable via gmane, etc. and those readers do like to post, too. Not
> > to mention people replying to list archives.
> >
> > http://www.interhack.net/pubs/munging-harmful/
>
> Unfortunately, that article was written in 1998, and ignores the
> reality of the current situation.
The situation that document describes is a constant. If it wasn't, email
wouldn't work as a whole.
> Zombie machines just aren't being disconnected at the rate they
> appear. Get microsoft to fix their bugs (hah!), and the zombie
> problem will go away, and spam will become managable again.
Your experience must be atypical.
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