Mailing list administrivia

[Paul]

On 4/25/2015 7:36 PM, Fairlight via Filepro-list wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 25, 2015 at 07:33:47PM -0400, filePro Mailing List thus spoke:
>> | While I don't like the new rules, we had to adopt them on all our hosted
>> | email servers.
>> | Mark, you stop the DDOS and spam attacks worldwide and let me sleep and I
>> | will turn
>> | the rules off. Until then, follow the new rules so I can sleep or I have to
>> | do
>> | without the filePro list. NO Exceptions! Without the rules, our servers were
>> | blacklisted daily.
>> | With the rules, very seldom. So get off your soap box and live with the new
>> | world order!
>> |
>> | Paul
>>
>>
>> OK, Paul who????
>>
>>  From years if experience, I know this Paul's last name, but this is
>> no way to run a mailing list....
> I was just thinking pretty much both...Paul who, and this new system is
> simply not working.  That's painfully apparent.
>
> I -don't- know Paul's last name, but he just lost the right to have me take
> him seriously.
>
> Personally, I would take down the list if those are the only two
> alternatives.  It's Bill's call, obviously.
>
> The one piece of constructive input I can offer is that the Real Name
> segment of the email address should at least be a quoted version of the
> originating email address of the actual poster.  People would at least be
> accountable and identifiable, then, without having to bother Bill.  As it
> is, hell, anyone could spoof being anyone, as long as they come from the
> same ISP so the Received headers vaguely match.  The way most people read
> mail, they don't even see Received headers, and unless someone clues them
> in, it'd be pretty easy to impersonate anyone just by setting one's Real
> Name to theirs.  That's patently silly.
>
> The irony here is that the measures are meant to combat the exact kind of
> anonymous abuse which it actually enables in a mailing list environment.
> As I said, it's ill-conceived, no matter who conceived it.
>
> mark->
AND WHO THE HELL MADE YOU THE INTERNET GOD!!!

Follow the rules or get off. The Internet doesn't need you!

PAUL MCNARY
pmcnary at cameron.net
Can you see who I am NOW!