Re: Gateway to python-list is generating bounce messages.
- From: Ben Finney <bignose+hates-spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 15:25:57 +1000
Grant Edwards <grante@xxxxxxxx> writes:
On 2008-09-10, Ben Finney <bignose+hates-spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Grant Edwards <grante@xxxxxxxx> writes:
Could whoever is responsible for the gateway that is grabbing
my postings off of Usenet and e-mailing them out please fix the
headers in the mail messages so that I don't get the bounce
messages?
The bounce messages are sent to you because you sent the
original.
Wrong. I didn't send _any_ e-mail. Why should I get bounce
messages?
You asked for email to be sent, by sending a Usenet post to
comp.lang.python. That's what a news-to-mail gateway does.
Isn't sending e-mails pretending they're from somebody else
considered unethical (if not illegal)?
No, since it's clearly the function of a news-to-mail gateway to make
this forum operate as a single pool of communication, seamlessly
passing the messages between two distinct media. That happens by
preserving the messages as intact as feasible in both media.
Indeed it is rude, and the person subscribed to the mailing list
whose software is sending these bounce messages is the one
responsible for making it stop.
No, the one who's sending e-mail with forged headers is the one who
ought to make it stop. That e-mail was not from me. It was from
somebody who grabbed the article off a usenet server and mailed it
to a bunch of people.
You seem to be arguing that the news-to-mail gateway of this forum
should stop functioning.
I don't know if you're claiming to be ignorant of the news-to-mail
gateway before now; if so, I hope you'll agree that having a large
body of mostly well-behaved contributors on this joint forum is worth
effort to keep it operational.
I think the list administrator ought to stop putting other people's
e-mail addresses in the From: headers of e-mails he's sending.
(Note that an email message has exactly one header, by definition; it
consists of separate fields, of which the From field is one.)
It's unfortunate that you don't like how the news-to-mail gateway
functions, but I'm not convinced that one person's surprise at how it
operates should be reason to break its primary function.
I sympathise completely with your irritation at receiving bounce
messages from poorly-configured software, but the solution is not to
break the news-to-mail gateway.
The correct solution is to unsubscribe the badly-behaving address from
the mailing list, and refuse re-subscription from that address without
assurance that the bad behaviour has ceased.
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