Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 2008-09-10, Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > >> Could whoever is responsible for the gateway that is grabbing > >> my postings off of Usenet and e-mailing them out please fix the > >> headers in the mail messages so that I don't get the bounce > >> messages? > > > > The bounce messages are sent to you because you sent the > > original. > > Wrong. I didn't send _any_ e-mail. Why should I get bounce > messages?
You asked for email to be sent, by sending a Usenet post to comp.lang.python. That's what a news-to-mail gateway does. > Isn't sending e-mails pretending they're from somebody else > considered unethical (if not illegal)? No, since it's clearly the function of a news-to-mail gateway to make this forum operate as a single pool of communication, seamlessly passing the messages between two distinct media. That happens by preserving the messages as intact as feasible in both media. > > Indeed it is rude, and the person subscribed to the mailing list > > whose software is sending these bounce messages is the one > > responsible for making it stop. > > No, the one who's sending e-mail with forged headers is the one who > ought to make it stop. That e-mail was not from me. It was from > somebody who grabbed the article off a usenet server and mailed it > to a bunch of people. You seem to be arguing that the news-to-mail gateway of this forum should stop functioning. I don't know if you're claiming to be ignorant of the news-to-mail gateway before now; if so, I hope you'll agree that having a large body of mostly well-behaved contributors on this joint forum is worth effort to keep it operational. > I think the list administrator ought to stop putting other people's > e-mail addresses in the From: headers of e-mails he's sending. (Note that an email message has exactly one header, by definition; it consists of separate fields, of which the From field is one.) It's unfortunate that you don't like how the news-to-mail gateway functions, but I'm not convinced that one person's surprise at how it operates should be reason to break its primary function. I sympathise completely with your irritation at receiving bounce messages from poorly-configured software, but the solution is not to break the news-to-mail gateway. The correct solution is to unsubscribe the badly-behaving address from the mailing list, and refuse re-subscription from that address without assurance that the bad behaviour has ceased. -- \ “A child of five could understand this. Fetch me a child of | `\ five.” —Groucho Marx | _o__) | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
