Brion Vibber <brion(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
> Perhaps the auto-rejection text message could be
edited to add a
> suggestion to checki this?
> Most people will not check it anyway, but If this is normal, it seems
> a good idea.
On most lists we discard, not reject, for unsubscribed
messages --
sending a mail back to hundreds of spam messages a day results in
spamming everybody with bogus bounce messages.
Welcome to the wonderful world of dealing with email
administration. :(
Yeah, but KDE for example (not to speak of Yahoo! Groups &
Co.) does not discard, but reject those messages, and I
doubt that they receive fewer or have bigger irons. Is there
any data available on how many message are discarded daily?
Rejection is a nice courtesy (well, sort of :-)), as it
indicates to the user that the pipeline from his mail client
to Wikimedia is working and gives him clear advice what he
has to do to post to the mailing list. So I would appreciate
changing this configuration as soon as the dumps are rede-
signed :-).
Tim