Martin Wille wrote:
Rene Rivera wrote:
Recently I've been getting anti-spam challenge-response emails from some subcribers on the Boost list. Personally I find such emails on a public list rude. Do people expect everyone on the list to register onto their respective anti-spam filters? I for one won't. It just means that person will never get many of the communications going on in the list. Since I'm now filtering email through Google, most likely I'll just mark such emails as SPAM and eventually the persons will never see Boost email again. But that sounds rude on my part.
Any suggestions?
I think your approach is fair.
It's the subscriber's responsibility not to bother the mailing list with anti-spam challenges or vacation notices.
I suggest we add that to the discussion policy document. Perhaps, we should also add it to the welcome-to-the-list message.
Agreed, but...
Yes, I do realize that this might cause some extra hassle for the subscriber because the subscriber might have to sort these issues out with his IT admin. However, it's the subscriber's IT administrator who caused the problem in the first place.
Many people won't be able to do anything about this, it's a decision of their company, or university, or whatever. It's the same as with those ridiculous legal threats in the signature.
I also suggest subscribers who repeatedly violate that part of the policy get unsubscribed.
This would mean that subscribers would get banned without being able to somehow change the situation. Granted, they could use a private mail account or something similar, but this could not be possible as well. I think just ignoring those mails is good enough. Markus