[Xitami] Xitami and PHP (fwd)

[Brian {Hamilton Kelly}]

In message <20040418193435.772623C477A1@basilica.la.naos.co.nz>
   Ewen McNeill writes:
> In message <56099@dsl.co.uk>, Brian {Hamilton Kelly} writes:
> >Has anyone else seen this sort of stupidity [whitelist challenge] when 
> >they post articles to the list?  [....] 
> >If others have had such nonsensical "rejections" then perhaps the list
> >owner needs to have a quiet little word in the earhole of Erv.
> 
> If we can figure out which email address "Erv Kosch" is subscribed with,
> then I'll remove it from the mailing list (alas, I can't find either of
> the domains messages in the challenge message, nor "Erv" or "Kosch" in
> the subscriber list).

Hmm, this makes me more suspicious that perhaps the challenge-response
was ungenuine, and that it was some new address harvester instead.

> It is not reasonable to expect either the mailing list software, or
> every list subscriber, to respond to your challenge software for
> messages posted to a mailing list that you chose to subscribe to.  So my
> policy is to treat them like any other bounce message -- that more than
> one or two indicates the address is broken and should be removed from
> the mailing list.

Thank you; that is an extremely practical (and pragmatic) attitude.

(I've sent you the entirety of the "bounce" message, unobfuscated and
with all its headers, under separate cover.)

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