** Reply to message from Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es> on Sat, 08 Jan 2005 13:27:17 +0100 (CET)
On Sat, 8 Jan 2005, Stan Goodman wrote:
Santiago Vila wrote:
It is a way to implement closed-loop confirmation of subscriptions, (aka double opt-in) using cookies, like any modern mailing list manager is expected to do these days (so that you can't subscribe an address to the list if you can't read mail sent to such address).
It's my understanding that Smartlist is not really considered by those who know their way around the subject far better than me to fall in the category of "modern mailing list manager". [...]
Yes, I agree. I did not mean to say that SmartList was a "modern" MLM. I really meant the opposite: As SmartList does not have confirmation of subscriptions by default, which is a very important feature these days, you should probably not use SmartList without the confirm add-on.
Try using a good DNSBL, if you don't use any yet. cbl.abuseat.org would be a good start.
Also, try using a MTA which has HELO checks and use them.
I confess that the initials flummox me (I think I remember the underground rapid transit system in Singapore being called the Metropolitan Transit Authority).
MTA: Mail Transport Agent, i.e. postfix, exim, sendmail, etc.
Worse yet, there does not seem to be a server at cbl.abuseat.org, so I can't hope to find out there.
works for me.
It worked for me too just now. It didn't before, though I had pasted it into the browser's URL window, and the browser had suppoied the missing "http://". Perhpas the DNS was down at the moment. But I am not sure that solutions of this sort are meaningful for me, if I understand this one correctly. As I explained before, the list server is not on a machine that is under my control, because it is on the hosting service. I can't bring it under my control, because I don't run Linux. I'm considering approaching the hosting service with a request to replace Smartlist with a different package, written for an environment more like what we have today (junk, spam, high-school kids without girlfriends who consequently have more time on their hands than can be spent constructively). In the meantime, I will set a filter to protect my inbox from the bounce messages that the administrator of this list has caused to be directed to its subscribers. The list shouldn't be part of the problem, as it is. -- Stan Goodman Qiryat Tiv'on Israel "When your enemy falls, do not rejoice." -- Proverbs 24:17 Horse sense is what a horse has that keeps it from betting on people.