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Re: can we disable the bounce kicker? Re: confirm <string>

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On Sun, Sep 11, 2016 at 3:23 AM, Sandro Tosi wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 10, 2016 at 7:35 PM, Barry Warsaw wrote:
>> On Sep 10, 2016, at 02:46 PM, Sandro Tosi wrote:
>>
>>>I'm sure i'm not the only member using gmail, which bounces spam
>>>emails and that what causes this problem.
>>
>> Are you sure about that?  Bouncing spam has been bad practice for a very long
>> time.
>
> i indeed used a wrong term (in email-world bounce has a specific
> meaning): gmail rejects spam emails (according to its filters) during
> the smtp session with the other MTA, so it's not a bounce, but the
> sender (alioth in this case) cant deliver the email, and that's what
> triggers the suspended membership process.

Rejecting instead of discarding spam sent to mailing lists has also
been bad practice for a long time.

-- 
bye,
pabs

https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise

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can we disable the bounce kicker? Re: confirm <string> Sandro Tosi <morph@debian.org> - 2016-09-10 15:50 +0200
  Re: can we disable the bounce kicker? Re: confirm <string> Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es> - 2016-09-10 16:50 +0200
    Re: can we disable the bounce kicker? Re: confirm <string> Sandro Tosi <morph@debian.org> - 2016-09-10 17:20 +0200
      Re: can we disable the bounce kicker? Re: confirm <string> Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es> - 2016-09-10 18:00 +0200
        Re: can we disable the bounce kicker? Re: confirm <string> Mattia Rizzolo <mattia@debian.org> - 2016-09-10 18:30 +0200
          Re: can we disable the bounce kicker? Re: confirm <string> Sandro Tosi <morph@debian.org> - 2016-09-10 18:40 +0200
            Re: can we disable the bounce kicker? Re: confirm <string> "W. Martin Borgert" <debacle@debian.org> - 2016-09-10 20:50 +0200
        Re: can we disable the bounce kicker? Re: confirm <string> Thomas Goirand <zigo@debian.org> - 2016-09-23 16:20 +0200
          Re: can we disable the bounce kicker? Re: confirm <string> Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es> - 2016-09-23 16:40 +0200
          Re: can we disable the bounce kicker? Re: confirm <string> Vincent Bernat <bernat@debian.org> - 2016-09-23 17:00 +0200
          Re: can we disable the bounce kicker? Re: confirm <string> Scott Kitterman <debian@kitterman.com> - 2016-09-23 20:10 +0200
    Re: can we disable the bounce kicker? Re: confirm <string> Barry Warsaw <barry@debian.org> - 2016-09-10 20:50 +0200
  Re: can we disable the bounce kicker? Re: confirm <string> Barry Warsaw <barry@debian.org> - 2016-09-10 20:40 +0200
    Re: can we disable the bounce kicker? Re: confirm <string> "Paul R. Tagliamonte" <paultag@gmail.com> - 2016-09-10 21:00 +0200
    Re: can we disable the bounce kicker? Re: confirm <string> Sandro Tosi <morph@debian.org> - 2016-09-10 21:30 +0200
      Re: can we disable the bounce kicker? Re: confirm <string> Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> - 2016-09-11 05:00 +0200
        Re: can we disable the bounce kicker? Re: confirm <string> Sandro Tosi <morph@debian.org> - 2016-09-11 10:50 +0200
          Re: can we disable the bounce kicker? Re: confirm <string> Mattia Rizzolo <mattia@debian.org> - 2016-09-11 11:00 +0200
            Re: can we disable the bounce kicker? Re: confirm <string> Sandro Tosi <morph@debian.org> - 2016-09-11 11:50 +0200
              Re: can we disable the bounce kicker? Re: confirm <string> Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org> - 2016-09-11 21:40 +0200
                Re: can we disable the bounce kicker? Re: confirm <string> Sandro Tosi <morph@debian.org> - 2016-09-15 14:20 +0200
          Re: can we disable the bounce kicker? Re: confirm <string> Barry Warsaw <barry@debian.org> - 2016-09-11 20:30 +0200

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