If folks need to post all the time from a different
address than their subscription address *they* should take the step to
get that posting address added to the approved posters list.
that might be fine, except
- in the current situation, even postings from occasional posters
are being blocked. and when postings are blocked, the message is
terse and cryptic (even insulting) and contains no clue about how
to workaround the problem
- getting on the "approved posters" list is not well documented or
understood. for some list software this is a manual operation
requiring the list admin to edit a file; on others it is under
control of the subscriber but he/she has to "subscribe" the alternate
address using some obscure option like /NOMAIL.
I've run several IETF lists myself and I know how much of a pain it
is to filter out spam. Yes, the process is error prone. Yes it's
a pain to keep approving posts from the same person (though it's
easy to fix that problem, and no I don't think adding that person
to an approved posters lists is assuming too much). And yet I still
don't think that namedroppers is being managed appropriately.
Can we please fix this problem which has gone on for several years
and stop pretending that this behavior is acceptable?
Keith