Re: ADMIN list config change

Anthere wrote:

> I am interested by the idea of an automatic message.
> Just a question though. The message will automatically
> be spent to non-wikipedians spammers as well (the rich
> but desperate african, the enlarged sex, and the
> luscious lips).
> I was told it was best to never answer back to a
> spammer, as it could then gain certainty the adress
> was valid, and send even more spam. Do you not fear an
> increase of spam then ?
> 
> Ant

Yes and no. I do not think that in the Spam-world of today there are 
still many spammers who use there real working sender adress.

The auto-reply will go to a non-vallid adress or to the emailadress of 
third party. I can send spam whit your emailadres Anthere.

But whit the configuration to hold the postings for moderation the 
sender also recieved a email. The "your email is hold for moderation". 
So there is not difference about that.

The only thing i do not like is the plain owner emailadress in the 
auto-reply.

Sending sending the emailadress in the mailto:[email protected] from. That 
is asking for spam.

I would like that it would be email AT dress DOT com .

The same whit the list info pages. The contain the list posting 
emailadress and the owner [email protected] plain whit any 
anti-spam protection. That is asking for spam.

There is no way to stop the emails to the [email protected] 
adress.

....... or maybe ...

If i use a encypted gmane version of my emailadress for list admin 
emailadress. All email send to [email protected] will 
recieve the gmane auto-responds for confirmation.

I will work be it makes it to difficult to send a message to the list 
admin. Not good.

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