"Message has a suspicious header"

[David Woodhouse]

On Wed, 2012-01-25 at 13:41 +0000, Pete Batard wrote:
> On 2012.01.25 13:08, David Woodhouse wrote:
> > Yes. It's a misfeature of mailman that it doesn't allow you to
> > automatically get notified of the reason when your post matches one of
> > the filters. The idea is that the list moderator will then tell you
> > explicitly what the reason is, if your post is rejected.
> 
> In that case the message still shouldn't be "suspicious header",

Indeed. As I said, mailman's moderation notice sucks.

> Well, my issue here is that other mailing lists seem to take the 
> approach of "approve first, then let the moderator delete if needed", 
> rather than "reject first, then let the moderator approve it if needed".

That doesn't make much sense to me. Once the message has been accepted
and sent out to all the subscribers, it *cannot* be deleted.

The only thing you could do is remove it from the archives... which
would just mean that the archives don't reflect the reality of what
actually got sent out.

The *only* possible approach is "hold suspicious stuff for a human to
look at it, then reject or approve as appropriate", surely?

> Also, I'm weary about assuming that something will be rare enough. Each 
> mailing list is different, so what may hold true for some may not be so 
> true on others, which is why I'd advise caution and permissiveness for a 
> start.

And indeed, the list admins seem to have been cautious and permitted
your message to pass through to the list. It wasn't even delayed for
long.

> Does that mean that HTML will be rejected by default as well?

No, it means that HTML will be considered suspicious and trapped for a
human to look at it and make a decision. Personally I reject all HTML on
my own lists. But the admins of *this* list can do as they see fit.

-- 
dwmw2
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