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Re: Some Questions about mailing...

2000-01-05 09:45:34

This list is misconfigured, and Ed & I started talking to ourselves 
instead of to the list;-((


Problem "B" can be assisted with "user education" but is generally a
losing battle.  However, if one has control or influence on how networking
equipment is configured they may be able to invoke "protocol priority" and
give SMTP traffic a smaller piece of the bandwidth pie.

I said:

or bounce mail from unapproved lists, recognisable by the "Precedence:"
header. Perhaps approved mailing lists could be subscribed and fed to a
local news server.

Ed said:
I've 2 comments....

Bouncing is not a good idea since it doubles the usage of the bandwidth.

The "Precedence:" header is not used for mailing lists, only Usenet.

I say further:
1:
By 'bounce' i mean coax sendmail into declining to accept the message 
accusing the sender of being a spammer. This is most likely to result in 
the subscriber being unsubscribed and yeilding a nett saving of bandwidth. 
A sendmail response saying '571 recipient not authorised to receive this' 
would likely get the message across.

2: 
Take a look at the headers of this missive;-)



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John Summerfield
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