Dumb mailing list software
I have a really strong SPAM filter that helps me in handling my huge daily e-mail traffic so I can
spend less then 3 hours a day on reading my mail. It is a must for me otherwise my work would be
really ineffective.
The worst problem with it is that there are crazy mailing list servers (like the one on
@linux.cz), that are not able to send correct "probe" message. The
probe is sent after several SPAMS from such server are correctly rejected (via
5xx SMTP
reply code). Now the really crazy thing: the probe contains excerpt from rejected SPAM, ie. it is
also SPAM...
I'm in many mailing lists (GNU projects lists, many OpenOffice.org lists, LKML, ...). Some of them
are really badly managed regarding SPAM (like lists of GNU project) and let many SPAM go through
them. But none of them is that dumb like @linux.cz. They often send probe that only contains
identification of rejected messages (like their IDs or so). None of them includes the text of
rejected mail. Sometimes I have to confirm that I'd like to be subscribed, but this is only a small
nuisance in comparison with @linux.cz mailing list server :-(
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