ASK -- Blacklist feature will be dropped

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Hi,

Given some recent (and other not so recent) events where clueless people
added mailer-daemon or a mailing-list address to their blacklists, I decided
to drop the blacklist feature *entirely* for future versions of ASK.

In the upcoming v2.5.1 (beta), the blacklist will be a synonym for
ignorelist, and no nastygrams will be sent out. Incoming emails with a match
in the blacklist will be, naturally, ignored.

If you have coded a front-end or any other service/product based on ASK, I'd
recommend changing your software to reflect the new behavior.

To know more about the facts leading to this decision, please see my origin=
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reply to a message posted to one of Debian's mailing-list here:

http://lists.debian.org/debian-wnpp/2004/10/msg00241.html

and the subsequent threads of emails that followed, here:

http://lists.debian.org/debian-wnpp/2004/10/msg00239.html

Thanks for your understanding,
Paga

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Marco Paganini          | UNIX / Linux / Networking
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