Why not simply subscribe and resend? As a maintainer of several lists, I can confirm what a royal pain it is to deal with people posting from non-subscribed addresses. I usually get 1-2 a week as I'm sorting through the 10-15 SPAMs a day. I'm sure I mistakenly reject many of them. Just my $.02 worth, -Dave On Tuesday, 26 Nov 2002, D. J. Bernstein wrote: > I've sent twelve messages to the namedroppers mailing list this month. > Five of them have been silently discarded by the namedroppers censor, > Randy Bush. (See http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/namedroppers.html for previous > incidents.) > > Bush says that the only relevant feature of my messages is that they're > sent from an address that isn't subscribed to namedroppers. Okay, boys > and girls, let's look at some statistics: > > * 5/12 of my messages have been silently discarded; > > * according to Bush, this has nothing to do with me or the content, > so we estimate that about 5/12 of all non-subscriber messages have > been silently discarded; > > * in the past three months, there have been about 100 legitimate > messages from other people who Bush labelled as non-subscribers; > > * so we estimate that, in the last three months, Bush has silently > discarded about 71 legitimate messages from other people. That's a > rate of hundreds per year. > > Bush doesn't say ``Your message didn't go through.'' Bush doesn't say > ``Reply to this bounce to confirm your original message.'' He simply > throws the message away. > > This is supposed to be the mailing list for an open IETF working group. > It's outrageous that valid messages are being silently discarded---even > if the number is not as large as hundreds per year. > > ---D. J. Bernstein, Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, > Statistics, and Computer Science, University of Illinois at Chicago > > P.S. Out of my twelve messages, the five that were silently discarded > are exactly the five that I would pick if I were a censor trying to bias > the DNSEXT decisions in favor of the BIND company. Coincidence, right? > > P.P.S. Bush's mailing-list software doesn't cryptographically confirm > unsubscription requests. I kept my subscription address private until > Bush revealed it a few days ago. I'm working on obtaining a subscription > through an address that Bush doesn't know is connected to me. > -- David Frascone My karma ran over my dogma