This sounds fine for now. But the newer versions of Mailman handle
this stuff much better. So ideally, the Pd lists would get a Mailman
upgrade, then it Mailman would bounce non-member posts as well.

I am sure you will enjoy 100 emails less clicking per day... it is a
thankless task.

.hc

On Nov 29, 2004, at 7:23 AM, Johannes M Zmoelnig wrote:

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

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