Re: [Asrg] VPNs vs consent

Claudio Telmon <claudio@telmon.org> Mon, 29 June 2009 13:52 UTC

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Rich Kulawiec wrote:

> A brief check of my own procmail config indicates that I'm on over 500 of
> these -- the overwhelming majority of which are role addresses such as
> those specified in RFC 2142.  A secondary check indicates that about 3/4
> of those are shared with one or more other people, which means I'd have
> to work out some kind of "shared consent" for several hundred addresses.
> That's not feasible in a reasonable period of time, especially since
> neither the addresses nor the pool of people they're shared with are static.

Well, I suppose that most of those mailboxes shouldn't be
consent-enabled anyway. Addresses like "abuse" or "postmaster" are meant
to be contacted by anybody that needs it, right? The same for the
official contact addresses of companies.

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Claudio Telmon
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