Re: This is getting ridiculous

* Thus wrote Dan Anderson (dan@mathjunkies.com): > > Blocking the users is not solving the issue... > > Don't just block random users. Create a rule something like: who said anything about random users. > > if (sender contains POSTMASTER or MAILER or DAEMON) > AND (cc, to, or bcc contains php-general@lists.php.net) > DELETE This is plain outright the wrong way to go about this (besides bcc is never filled out.) Not to mention I will never setup my filters to do ridiculous things like that. > > Doing things like this, adding in filters like "if subject contains > VIRUS" and other such things make it very unlikely you will filter good > e-mails. > this is not a virus issue. > If you want to get creative throw in some things to look for headers in > the mail body. The point is to block things that 99.9% of these bad > bounces would be, but that 0.0001% of users would be. And frankly, > anybody who subscribes to the list from mailer-daemon@foo.com deserves > to be blocked for being dumb. :-) nobody has subscribed at mailer-daemon@foo.com. see my previous post, it explains why this is. > > Variations on this theme can be used to stop all bounce notifications > for e-mails you didn't send. It took me all of 5 minutes to set up > similar rules last night and I'm happy to say the only emails I get are > people yelling at the people who bounced. :-) Again, repeating myself (and others), about the 12th time now in this thread alone, this is not solving the issue. Eventually there will be 10 returned emails for each posts and that will mean that that there will be around 2000 needless emails being sent around, a day. This is complete nonsense and must be fixed. Curt -- "I used to think I was indecisive, but now I'm not so sure."