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Re: Spamming the World through Open Debian Mailinglists (Re: lists.debian.org has received bounces from you)



Don Armstrong <don@debian.org> writes:

> On Sat, 27 Dec 2008, Jeroen Massar wrote:
>> And yes, my SMTP server and those of a lot of other people will
>> CORRECTLY refuse to accept mail classified as spam and correctly
>> give a 500 SMTP error code as the server will refuse to deliver it.
>
> If you sign up for mail from mailing lists, just discard mail that you
> don't want to read that comes in from us with Priority: bulk or List-*
> headers instead of bouncing it. A mailing list is little more than a
> glorified mail forwarder: bouncing forwarded mail is wrong.

I don't control my mail server, so I can't make it do that.
-- 
Ben Pfaff 
http://benpfaff.org


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