[PLUG] smtp with sender subscription...

[Jeme A Brelin]

On Tue, 13 Apr 2004, Michael Robinson wrote:
> Using someone else's black list is letting someone else force
> registration in some form, albeit incompletely in many cases.  A check
> of rfc ignorant is checking a registry.  The spamhaus database is a
> registry.  Is it better to let someone else do registration than it is
> to do it yourself on your own traffic?  Maybe online databases get their
> information from people who are sent garbage and report it, but they are
> still registries.

Spamhaus is a fascist, self-appointed tyrannical power.

> I would like to know how to log worthless errors where no mail is
> delivered to a log other than the maillog so thaI can get to pertinent
> information faster, like where spam that got through dns resolution
> checking came from.

Exactly what's in your mail logs that makes you go poking around in there
all the time?  I can't tell you the last time I bothered to actually read
a mail log.  It's mostly there for debugging.

> Is the attitude about spam where people are anti registration that
> anonymity of senders and conveniencing senders is more sacred than
> protecting local users?

If by "registration" you mean your scheme where all email addresses become
personally identifying markers, I would say the answer is a resounding
"Yes".

> Who has the right to be anonymous sending email to private sites without
> asking first?

Everyone... just as they have the right to speak or send mail through the
post office.

J.
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