Alessandro Vesely wrote:
On Thu 05/Jun/2014 10:51:05 +0200 T.p. wrote:
I used to get a reminder once a month of the mailing lists to which I am
subscribed, such as this one, but, around the time of IETF89, this
stopped working. I see that the option on every one of the lists to
which I am subscribed has been reset to not send a reminder, not
something that I would intentionally ever do
I'd be curious to know some more on the usefulness of reminders.
They're what I call a time-distributed database. When subscribers
need to query the status of their subscription, they simply perform a
time seek --by waiting at most one month-- and voilà!
Since we've been discussing how DMARC is going to affect the fate of
mailing lists, recently on this list, I wonder why 21st century
technology doesn't offer anything better. The outcome of that
discussion was that mailbox providers don't know the status of their
clients' subscriptions too, hence they cannot deploy any cooperative
solution such as whitelisting, weak signatures, or 3rd party auths.
Well that's just wrong. All the mailing lists that I administer send
all kinds of warnings when addresses bounce, when spam is captured, and
so forth. I run sympa, but I expect mailman and other list managers
provide similar administrative tools.
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In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
In practice, there is. .... Yogi Berra