hi.

the current policy regarding posts to the pd-lists (pd-list, pd-announce, pd-ot, pd-dev) from non-subscribed posters is as follows: SPAM is silently dropped (the sender is not notified that the mail did not make it to the list) other mails (e.g. mails from people that are interested in pd but do not want to subscribe, or mails from subscribed people that are sent from "unknown" (e.g. not-subscribed) addresses) are rejected (this is: the sender gets an email saying that his email did not make it to the list because...)

unfortunately this is a constant annoyance for the list-administrator (the poor person has to go through ~100 bouncing-emails per day and decide whether they are to be rejected or discarded. this is both tiresome and error-prone)

to make life easier, i'd like to discard all bouncing emails in the future (as hans proposed to me in graz) the bad side of this is, that whenever an email is sent to the mailinglist from an unsubscribed account it will be silently dropped and you wouldn't know why it got "lost".

to the lists it wouldn't make any difference, as such emails *never* reach them.

so i no one objects, i will enable the new policy by tomorrow.

mfg.a.dr IOhannes