add "Auto-Submitted: auto-generated" to generated EMails?

[Grant Taylor]

On 3/14/23 3:50 PM, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Yes, indeed.  Although I do suspect that would result in better 
> deliverability of moderated group submissions.

If we're tweaking how things are being sent, perhaps also explore some 
ESMTP options like setting notify or what's returned (headers vs full 
message).

> I guess... I'm not sure I really want to volunteer Todd and I for 
> more work on that front, but at the same time it probably wouldn't 
> be too much work.
> 
> Some sort of centralized database like that is presumably the solution, 
> though, whether at ISC or on GitHub or somewhere else like that. 
> Not eyrie.org, though; there's too much Usenet stuff that depends on 
> me personally already.  :)

Is there a way to distribute this so that's it's not centralized?  The 
first thing that comes to mind is DNS.

> (Ideally we would publish the submission addresses of all moderated 
> groups, but last time we asked the moderators were pretty strongly 
> against that on the grounds that they'd get spammed.  Which, well, 
> is probably true; even though it's trivially possible to construct a 
> working email address for every moderated group already, it doesn't 
> get picked up by web scraping, so most spammers probably don't bother.)

:-/

> Yeah, that's a weird wrinkle, but also multiple moderated groups 
> mostly just doesn't work and hasn't ever really worked.  There's a 
> protocol and everything for how to handle them, but my guess is that 
> the number of people who follow that protocol are approximately zero.

:-(



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