On 8/17/2017, 9:28:00 AM, Phil Stracchino <ph...@caerllewys.net> wrote: > This is nice in theory but doesn't work in practice,
This statement is most assuredly not true in a general sense. The reality is, it works very well in the vast majority of cases. > because not every sender particularly closely follows the applicable > RFCs. No one said they did, but the vast majority of the important ones do. > Certain major mailing list hosts (not that I'd mention Sourceforge by > name, for example) will, upon seeing multiple delivery failures, just > drop subscribers from the list with no further attempt at notice. Email list messages are hardly what I would classify as 'worth the effort'. They all (in general) archive their messages, so you can always go read and catch up if it is that important to you. To most people, it isn't. > Depending on the mailing list this may have major real-world impact. Not really - as I said they all (the important ones at least) have publicly available web archives (and many have newsgroup gateways), if they are that important to you. But, again, to each their own. I won't respond further on list since this is gone way OT...
