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Because this completely breaks mailing lists. For example, I am subscribed to my town’s unofficial mailing list, which has tens of thousands of people, dozens
by theamk 6y ago
Because this completely breaks mailing lists.
For example, I am subscribed to my town’s unofficial mailing list, which has tens of thousands of people, dozens of messages per day, and no budget. The mailing lists are also very popular with open source - LKML being most famous example.
And the worst thing, the spammers will not be affected as much. They’d just rent infected windows machines and do the calculations there.
- throwaway9870 6y agoIt doesn't have to be a binary check. It could just be another signal that the e-mail receiving system can use to make a determination. Typically, one adds mailing list addresses to an allow list anyways.
- _alex_ 6y agoif you're blocklisting/allowlisting addresses _anyway_, then spam isn't a problem. just block everything that's not on the allowlist
- sean_pedersen 6y agoThan you will have many false positives.