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Subject: Re: m.gmane.org
From: Russ Allbery <rra @ stanford . edu>
Organization: The Eyrie
Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2002 11:11:37 -0700
To: list-managers <list-managers @ greatcircle . com>
In-reply-to: <v03130309b96f05c2ebbd@[192.168.123.10]> (Charlie Summers'smessage of "Thu, 1 Aug 2002 11:56:56 -0400")
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Charlie Summers <charlie@lofcom.com> writes:

> And of course, there are different ways for other mailing list servers.
> But I'm curious to know if you perchance have copies of the original
> subscription requests - if they are envelope-from gmane.org, there
> doesn't seem to be any reason not to just REJECT their mail on the
> sendmail level (other than the postmaster argument, which I'd maintain
> doesn't apply here since I don't want to talk to these clowns AT ALL and
> it's my server/my choice, can anyone think of a legitimate reason to
> accept mail from them?).

Why don't you just send them mail and say "please don't archive any of the
lists hosted on X and Y and Z?"

Why does everyone always have to be so confrontational and aggressive
about things rather than assuming good will on the part of other people
for at least the first pass?

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>



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