[OT] Sender Authentication by list members (was) Fwd: Re: Weird process behavior

[xyzzy at hotpop.com]

On Wednesday 02 June 2004 22:04, Phil Schaffner wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-06-02 at 07:54 -0500, dalen wrote:
> > Andy Green wrote:
> > > On Wednesday 02 June 2004 08:59, Sandip Bhattacharya wrote:
> > >>Is it fair to subject members of a list to sender authenticated
> > >>verifications? Is this considered polite by list members?
> > >
> > > No, it sucks.  Plus the filtering service clearly needs an upgrade to
> > > look at the sending mail server and list headers rather than the From
> > > field.\
>
> Seems like a no-brainer if they want to stay in business.
>
> > > Of course Bruce Morrow won't see this opinion since I refuse to
> > > whitelist myself ;-)
>
> Well, he SHOULD have seen my opinion as I did go to the whitelist page,
> even though it took multiple attempts, to make sure he was informed of
> the problem, and Cc'd him directly on "Anti-Spam Spam (was Re: Re: Grub
> Reinstall Problem!!!)".  No response, so maybe he's either too
> embarrassed or doesn't give a hoot.

Or... maybe (as was mentioned before on this list), this is a spammer with a 
novel new way to fish for verified addresses...

>
> > I have asked the fedora list admin to drop Bruce Morrow from the list
> > for this reason.
>
> Just deserts.
>
> Phil