Well, now I'm in a thoroughly puzzled and bad mood. I seem to be going
through the same dilemma Jason did when he decided that a complete rewrite
from scratch was necessary ....
Anyhow I protected my 1.94.4 lists from spammers by making everything go
through resend to a private sendmail process with its own alias file and
queue, so nobody can get access to a list until they join it with a
confirmed email address. That all works fine, except that resend seems
to treat a non-member submission as a reasonable thing to forward on to
the moderator rather than something to be automatically rejected. So OK,
maybe resend was written for a kindler gentler Internet, so I need to
make a few changes.
But resend is the most gawdawful mess of hacks and undocumented spaghetti
code I've seen in a while, no offense intended, I'm sure there's a good
reason for it to be that way. Attempting to change just a few things
is a nightmare because of all the undocumented assumptions and lack of
conceptual clarity. Is there any point in my trying to clean up the
mess, possibly in hopes of abstracting what we know so far about intake
of mailing list messages, so that we can incorporate the result in 2?
Or should I use the meatax approach?
-- Walt
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"Change is necessary. Change is good." - Lonnie Burton
"Maybe it's true, maybe it's not. Better you should believe it."
- Sherpa saying
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