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

[Joe(theWordy)Philbrook]

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.

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...
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But if I actually knew everything, then I'd know I was an idiot...

It would appear that on Mar 29, Steve Buehler did say:

> I agree, but to fight the amount of spam that goes through is not easy some 
> times.  The problem with mailing lists like this one is that the from line 
> does NOT say it is from the redhat list but instead, the user who sent to 
> the redhat list.  So they can't put that into their program to allow it to 
> come through.  I don't use these type of services, but when getting around 
> 10,000 emails a day and only about 1,000 are valid for me, it is real tempting.
> 
> Steve
> 
> At 09:15 AM 3/29/2004, you wrote:
> >AAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
> >
> >why do these people insist on using this inane and anoying system when
> >subscribing to mailing lists??????????????
> >
> >I know I've ranted about this before but it's still annoying.

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