Re: [xwt-users] Reply-To

On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 06:29:34PM -0800, Adam Megacz wrote:

> > The anti-reply-to crowd will be of the opinion that if people want to
> > post to the list they should use group-reply instead of just reply,
> 
> The annoying part of this is that you get two copies of the reply (one
> sent in reply-to-all and one sent directly to you).
> 
> It would be cool if mailing list software would notice this and omit
> the original poster from the distribution of the reply.

Come to think about it, I wonder why most MLs don't.

> Dammit, I'm definately writing my own mailing list manager after
> Nitrogen is done.  Also, I found a solution to the
> spam-vs-letting-unsubscribed-users-post -- use a whitelist.  The first
> time somebody posts to the list, their message is held and they get a
> "ping" email sent to them with a link.  If they click that link
> (proving that they're human), their message goes through and they're
> added to the ok-to-send list.

I think I've heard that call 'greylisting'. Not purely white-listing,
not purely blacklisting.

-- 
Emiliano