From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/45981 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Russ Allbery Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: TMDA (was: new spam functionality added) Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2002 14:46:44 -0700 Organization: The Eyrie Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <87y9brejam.fsf@mail.paradoxical.net> <873ctztyth.fsf@mail.paradoxical.net> <20020801222925.A10502@mastaler.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1028324938 10607 127.0.0.1 (2 Aug 2002 21:48:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2002 21:48:58 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 17akI5-0002ky-00 for ; Fri, 02 Aug 2002 23:48:57 +0200 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 17akGO-0004aO-00; Fri, 02 Aug 2002 16:47:12 -0500 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Fri, 02 Aug 2002 16:47:40 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (qmailr@sclp3.sclp.com [209.196.61.66]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id QAA15770 for ; Fri, 2 Aug 2002 16:47:27 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: (qmail 25184 invoked by alias); 2 Aug 2002 21:46:54 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 25179 invoked from network); 2 Aug 2002 21:46:53 -0000 Original-Received: from windlord.stanford.edu (171.64.13.23) by gnus.org with SMTP; 2 Aug 2002 21:46:53 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 27484 invoked by uid 50); 2 Aug 2002 21:46:44 -0000 Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: (prj@po.cwru.edu's message of "Fri, 02 Aug 2002 12:17:52 -0400") Original-Lines: 20 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090005 (Oort Gnus v0.05) XEmacs/21.4 (Honest Recruiter, sparc-sun-solaris2.6) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:45981 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:45981 Paul Jarc writes: > Russ Allbery wrote: >> I have encountered people with TMDA configured precisely along the >> lines that I've previously described. I don't confirm my mail to them. >> It's a waste of my time, which I consider valuable and refuse to allow >> be wasted in that fashion. > If a reliable autoconfirmer were written, would you consider it a waste > of time to set it up for your mailbox? Hm. Maybe. But I'd at least think about it. I think one of the requirements I'd have there would be to be able to specify somehow that the confirmation messages went to some other address of my choosing. That way, I wouldn't have to trust the autoconfirmer with my regular mail. -- Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)