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Subject: Re: [Fwd: EFF Mailing List Query]
From: "Roger B.A. Klorese" <rogerk @ queernet . org>
Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2003 23:52:19 -0800
To: J C Lawrence <claw @ kanga . nu>
Cc: Chuq Von Rospach <chuqui @ plaidworks . com>,Bob Bish <bobbish @ earthlink . net>, list-managers @ greatcircle . com
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J C Lawrence wrote:

>  -- I don't use TMDA on my personal, just on my lists and role
>  addresses (-owner, -admin, postmaster, webmaster, etc).  FWLIW this is
>  not due to any concern over offense, but rather more simply because my
>  SPAM/virus filters are already effective enough to keep my junk rate
>  in my personal mailboxes to single digit message counts per day -- not
>  enough problem to warrant messing with.
>

But my role addresses are the ones most likely to be written to by naive 
users.

And since many lists I get have the reply-to-sender deal where people 
end up replying to all, they would get confirmation requests that would 
just be a hassle.

>  -- None have complained about either the confirmation process, or the
>  fact that they had to confirm.
>

We get people complaining about having to confirm subscribes and 
unsubscribes, let alone posts -- not just that it's too obscure, but 
that it's a hassle and they don't really care what effect it has on our 
spam.

>  -- I use a modified version of the default TMDA confirmation request:
>  
>
Frankly, when I've gotten a TMDA confirmation request, I've more often 
gone to the telephone than bothered.




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