On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 02:30:58PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Thu, 31 Jul 2003 16:57:30 -0700, Alan Connor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > If any mail comes to me from an email address or domain that isn't > > on my pass list, it goes to /dev/null and an auto-response is sent > > to whatever return address the sender supplied. > > > It asks them to re-send the mail including a password on the subject > > line and insists that they use it with the same address used to > > acquire it. > > > Obviously, if the address is invalid, they never get the reply. > > Hopefully, then, you don't need any answers I may send out > privately, since I send all such resent requests to the bit > bucket. _That_ is the problem with this approach -- you are actively > deciding to forego any unexpected email coming from people who are > not on your OK list. Participating on a public forum like this > mailing list or USENET also exposes one to unexpected correspondence > off channel -- and I have had conversation that I would not have > liked to have missed.
If you decide to go off channel and send a mail in private, why not just reply to a resent request? At least with tmda (and I gather, also with Alan's program) you are automatically added to the whitelist. _If_ you decide to go off channel, you only have to reply _once_. As Richard already said, why not just accept (or at least tolerate) both filtering and C-R? With tmda, your mail is not sent to /dev/null. It is queued and a challenge is sent back. You only have to reply, with or without the body, add nothing, do nothing, don't look up your sentmail folder, or whatever. Just reply. I don't use C-R myself (I use SpamAssassin), but am rather sympathetic towards C-R. David -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
