Monday 2019-04-29

Email admins used to fight misconfigurations, then the fight turned into a war against spammers, and now we're fighting ourselves....

Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2019 23:20:31 +1200 (NZST)
From: Simon Lyall via mailop <mailop@mailop.org>
To: mailop@mailop.org
Subject: Re: [mailop] Admin: Gmail users of mailop suspended due to bounces.

On Sun, 28 Apr 2019, Simon Lyall via mailop wrote:
> Well since that email just triggered another round of bounces I've just
> updated mailop's mailman config to mung all email addresses (hopefully,
> this email is a test).

Well the good news is that worked. The bad news is that gmail just bounced the
daily digest so all those list members are now suspended.

Maybe a slack channel would be easier.