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Re: Gmail email blocking is off the rails (again)


From: Matthew Pounsett <matt () conundrum com>
Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2019 17:42:29 -0500

On Wed, 4 Dec 2019 at 17:39, John R. Levine <johnl () iecc com> wrote:


Or maybe users are tired of the useless monthly messages and report them
as spam.


Again, these are not a user messages or regular list traffic, they're
admin/moderator messages addressed to an admin of a list.

Your point about the possibility of spammers forging those is taken, but I
don't see that as being anywhere remotely common enough to justify a 5xx
error on attempted delivery of such a message.

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