[Sussex] Re: Email Not Getting Through

Richie Jarvis richie at helkit.com
Fri Apr 25 10:10:25 UTC 2008


Steve Dobson wrote:
> Richie
>
> On Thu, 2008-04-24 at 16:38 +0100, Richie Jarvis wrote (in another
> thread):
>   
>> Note: I've been trying to reply to this all day - lets see if this one
>> gets through!
>>     
>
>
> Where you sending from your home account?  The list policy is to
> silently drop any non-signed up email address as this was almost always
> (>95%) spam and after discussion on this list some time back, it was
> decided that sending rejection messages would only add to the spam
> problem for others and that was not what we wanted.  There is a note to
> this effect on the web site.
>
> Should the policy be change?  Should a note be placed on the bottom of
> every out bound message to remind everyone?  How many people read the
> signature every time?
>
> If any one has a opinion then I'm happy to discuss and go with the
> consensus.  This means that under the new ISO model [1] if I don't like
> what I'm hearing I'll reduce the number of people who's opinions matter
> until everyone agrees with me. 
>
> Steve
>
> [1]
> http://topicmaps.wordpress.com/2008/04/18/the-norway-vote-what-really-happened/
>   
Nah - it was my fault - i was using webmail at home from Grenoble, and 
had not bothered to fill in my correctly SLUG registered email address...

In other words, i agree with you ;)

Richie




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