[PD-announce] PD-list change of policy for unsubscribed posters

[Johannes M Zmoelnig]

hi.

the current policy regarding posts to the pd-lists (pd-list, 
pd-announce, pd-ot, pd-dev) from non-subscribed posters is as follows:
SPAM is silently dropped (the sender is not notified that the mail did 
not make it to the list)
other mails (e.g. mails from people that are interested in pd but do not 
want to subscribe, or mails from subscribed people that are sent from 
"unknown" (e.g. not-subscribed) addresses) are rejected (this is: the 
sender gets an email saying that his email did not make it to the list 
because...)

unfortunately this is a constant annoyance for the list-administrator 
(the poor person has to go through ~100 bouncing-emails per day and 
decide whether they are to be rejected or discarded. this is both 
tiresome and error-prone)


to make life easier, i'd like to discard all bouncing emails in the 
future (as hans proposed to me in graz)
the bad side of this is, that whenever an email is sent to the 
mailinglist from an unsubscribed account it will be silently dropped and 
you wouldn't know why it got "lost".

to the lists it wouldn't make any difference, as such emails *never* 
reach them.

so i no one objects, i will enable the new policy by tomorrow.

mfg.a.dr
IOhannes