On Wed, 22 Dec 2004, Ian Welton wrote:
> An early Friday one.
>
> Do MAILER-DAEMON failed delivery messages for messages sent to a mail list,
> and subsequently dispatched to a large number of addressees, some of whom
> may be unknown to the sender, breach the fair obtaining principle when they
> detail the non-recipients.
To completely not answer your question: no mailing list should be set up
so that bounce messages of this nature get sent back to the list. Any
list that does that is severely broken. I would advise not being on such
a list!
Unfortunately, they generally do have to go somewhere, and that is usually
to the list owner, who is probably expected to do something about the bad
addresses. And I expect some lists send the error messages to the
original sender, which also would be poor behaviour.
Some mailing list software tries to automatically handle them in various
ways, sometimes badly, sometimes better.
> e.g. A recent email which contained what in some
> cultural/socialogical/terratorial groups could be viewed as rude or abusive
> and yet in others as normal names seemed to be rejected by several email
> servers.
>
> Secondly, are those mail servers which reject such postings prejudiced in
> any way?
>
> Ian W
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Jethro R Binks
Computing Officer, IT Services
University Of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK
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