[Xdevconf] Bounces

[Havoc Pennington]

On Mon, 2005-01-24 at 10:57 -0500, Carl Worth wrote:
> On Sat, 22 Jan 2005 19:42:29 -0500, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> > On Fri, 2005-01-21 at 17:14 -0500, George Staikos wrote:
> > > Why do I keep getting unsubscribed due to bounces?  My email has been working 
> > > perfectly fine...
> > 
> > It's a longstanding problem with freedesktop.org. I forgot the
> > conclusion last time it was discussed.
> 
> I think we decided that the problems come from your mail server
> bouncing back spam that came through the list and mailman then
> deciding your address is unreliable for delivery.
> 
> At the conclusion of the thread, we recommended increasing some bounce
> threshold parameters in the list setup from their defaults. This is a
> per-list setting, so it's probably worth someone sitting down and
> fixing up all the lists now, (and fixing the default for new lists).
> 

Ah, so the difference between fd.org and the other lists I'm on is that 
almost all other lists are "member post only" - so no spam.

Havoc