[AktiviX-discuss] [AktiviX-users] list-admins: Changes to lists.aktivix.org subscription process

[mp]

On 15/03/10 13:13, echo wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-03-15 at 11:22 +0000, mp wrote:
> 
>> I am seriously confused about the situation: what has been achieved?
>> What has been lost?
> 
> We've severely decreased the risk of having one of our lists turn into a
> means of distributing massive amounts of spam, and in so doing meant
> that it's much less likely that the major mail-providers will block
> email from aktivix lists, something that has happened with both the last
> two spam-attacks. We are also now in a position to confirm to these
> mail-providers that we only allow subscriptions that have been confirmed
> by the relevant email-address, meaning that we're more likely to
> continue not to be marked as spam or blacklisted.

So it is implied that lists are managed by people who subscribe people
to lists without their knowledge? That is a strange, somehow. Given the
AUP etc. and the at times - in my opinion - over strict rejection of
kinds of groups that can get a list, it still happens that some lists
become distributors of spam?!?!

-m