# Re: sane-devel mailing list blocking non-subscribers

From: Ian Stirling (root@mauve.demon.co.uk)
Date: Thu Sep 14 2000 - 12:35:53 PDT

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  <snip>
  > Any system which accepts mail but neither forwards it to its destination
  > nor notifies the sender that the mail couldn't be forwarded is broken.
  > It's that simple. If you're not intending to forward it, don't even
  > accept it.
  >
  > OTOH If the mail goes to a human and they make policy decisions, that
  > is fine, but it would be good etiquette to inform people in advance that
  > their mail may be arbitrarily dropped, edited, forwarded, delayed and
  > otherwise maltreated -- all in the name of the group of course.

  OTGH, a way of bouncing email to a specified address, can be used to
  mailbomb, so it's not quite as simple as it might be.
  It should ideally be rejected at the SMTP level.

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