Re: email etiquette

Brian Reynolds writes:
> Sorry to post this to the list, but I don't remember how to get a hold
> of the list maintainer.

Time was, you could always contact a list maintainer by emailing
{listname}-owner, e.g., pinhole-discussion-owner@spitbite.org ...
that will work with this list, but sadly I'm not sure how universal
that convention is anymore.

> A member of this list (the maintainer can contact me for details) is
> running a badly designed mail filter. It is set up to bounce back
> mail received from new senders, requiring the sender to reply to the
> bounce. In general this is a bad idea[1], but on a mailing list this
> is extraordinarily bad. If you don't want to receive email don't
> subscribe to mailing lists and don't make senders jump through hoops.

The ironic thing about this is that I suspect the user in question
is one who often voices the opinion that there is more activity on
the f295 forum; I don't deny or doubt this, but if one is refusing
mail from list members who haven't authenticated themselves to
oneself, one shouldn't expect to see much traffic from a list.

And the sad thing about this is that the user's ISP may have set
this up without their knowledge, or without them explicitly opting
in for the service. I've seen this happen, too, although I don't
think that's the case here.

Brian, I'm not sure what you'd like me to do. Ask this user to
unsubscribe? To disable their anti-spam software? (Not having
gone through the validation procedure, I can't communicate with
them, either.) Unsubscribe them myself? I have let the situation
be for a while, thinking that people can validate themselves to
this member or not, as they see fit.

--Eric
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Received on Wed Dec 14 11:25:51 2005