On Mon, 12 Sep 2005, Theo Schlossnagle wrote:
If you join the board of you local home-owners association and they "add
you" to the alias. Any relatively small, relatively static group can
easily be placed into an aliases style forwarding where the members of
said group indeed want the email and yet did not formally request for
the alias to be set up.
If you want the homeowner mailings (and are willing to accept whatever
other garbage the association might inadvertantly send your way), you list the
forwarder (overlooking the rudeness). Otherwise you don't - and it gets
rejected.
If the association notices the rejections, they can ask
you about it, and you can either explain that you don't want to be
on the mailing list (this kind of aliasing amounts to a mailing list), or
you can point them at a mailman installation. They will be so wowed
at what a *real* mailing list can do - and so easy and user friendly, that they
will immediately drop the aliasing and start using mailman. Incidently,
real mailing lists like mailman don't have SPF problems.
Really. I've done that - it really works like I described. People only use
aliases for mailing lists because they don't know of any alternatives. It
doesn't work well for the purpose.
--
Stuart D. Gathman <stuart(_at_)bmsi(_dot_)com>
Business Management Systems Inc. Phone: 703 591-0911 Fax: 703 591-6154
"Confutatis maledictis, flamis acribus addictis" - background song for
a Microsoft sponsored "Where do you want to go from here?" commercial.
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