Fwd: Please confirm your email for brent at mailstation.us

[Gary Stainburn]

On Thursday 01 April 2004 12:12 am, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote:
> Seams like a lose/lose situation, either the list's contributors get
> pummeled with these very annoying "http://www.MailStation.US" links. OR
> "http://www.MailStation.US" users have to give up on an easy anti-spam
> solution.

There are two problems here.  Firstly, I use reply-to-all, because on most 
mailing lists, that's the easiest way to ensure that my reply gets back to 
the list.  However, this means that an email also gets back direct to the 
original author - with this direct post being the possible cause.  I've 
noticed that this list actually changes the reply-to to include the list 
address.

Secondly, MailStation presumably isn't clever enough to check other headers, 
such as List-Id, or reply-to.  If it checked the reply-to alone, it would 
allow the messages through.

>
> Unless of course there is a simple compromise... Steve says the problem
> is that the "From:" header line doesn't indicate the redhat list?
> Might I suggest that those list users who wish yo use that kind of
> spamblocking subscribe instead to the "Digest" version. Then the actual
> "From:" header would say "redhat-list-request at redhat.com" with
> individual subjects embedded in the attachments. If a list user can't do
> without such an inane form of spam protection on the mailbox used to
> subscribe, then I think it's only common courtesy for them to subscribe
> to the version that can be programed into their white list.
>
> Wouldn't that solve the problem? Err of course that is IF and only IF
> you can get the "http://www.MailStation.US" users to settle for the
> digest...
>
> Granted the "Digest" may take a little getting used to for some. And it
> might be that some mail clients make it difficult to work with. But I
> can say it's no problem with pine. I simply index an attachment from
> the attachment list. IE: this time I selected a line that said:
> ' Message, "Re: Fwd: Please confirm your email for'
> Then selected the view function. Since I started the reply while viewing
> the message pine took care of the subject line for me and initially
> quoted only the one attachment's content... So I'm inclined to think the
> better gui mail clients should handle the digest well enough.
>
> It's just an idea...

Unfortunately, not every mail client's as good as pine.

I still think the best but most unlikely solution is to get MailStation to 
have more intelligent filters, but until then I'm simply going to send any 
posts from them straight into the bit-bucket.

-- 
Gary Stainburn
 
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