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Re: [pygame] Mailing List Discard Tweak



The only snag with sending reject replies is that it's then open to
abuse. If I took a dislike to someone (not a subscriber), I could send
hundreds of emails to the list, spoofing his email address as the
sender. He'd then get his inbox swamped. It's some standard mailing list
software which may or may not have the capability to rate-limit reject
messages.

Regards - Philip

On 13/06/2015 20:25, tom arnall wrote:
> ditto. thanks Ian for the suggestion.
>
> On 6/12/15, Ian Mallett <geometrian@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I use GMail as my mailer client. The email associated with this
>> account is *geometrian<at>gmail.com
>> <http://gmail.com>*. However, I use GMail to send from my personal
>> email *ian<at>geometrian.com
>> <http://geometrian.com>* (and this is the default). I am subscribed to the
>> mailing list under the *first*.
>>
>> It seems that the pygame mailing list silently rejects emails from
>> addresses that are not registered, to the effect that emails from my
>> personal email are silently discarded. The effect is that I have been
>> having one-sided conversations with myself for years, every time I forget
>> to use *geometrian<at>gmail.com <http://gmail.com>*.
>>
>> *I propose that messages from emails not subscribed to the list be rejected
>> with a message informing the sender of such*.
>>
>> I have unsubscribed the GMail address and subscribed the personal address,
>> fixing the problem, hopefully. However, I still recommend the above action.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Ian
>>
>