Re: [reSIProcate] Administrative Notice: MTA Policies and your resiprocate list subscription.
yes - let's fix this - lots of people do speak something other than English
here. (Or at least in my case, I can argue that I can't write English :-)
More specifically, I know several people that have non US-ASCII names.
On 12/13/04 9:13 PM, "Alan Hawrylyshen" <alan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Fellow reSIProcate developers;
>
> Lately I have noticed a larger than usual bounce rate in delivering the
> reSIProcate mailing list messages to subscribers. It appears that
> there is a 'new MTA rule' making the rounds that people have
> implemented in a misguided attempt to stop SPAM. I'm sure the rule
> lowers the number of SPAM messages that are delivered to users within
> the MTA's domain, but the false-positive rate is unreasonable.
>
> These bounces are resulting in people being unsubscribed (or having
> delivery suppressed) without their knowledge.
>
> From my studies of the bounce messages the best description of the MTA
> rule is:
>
> Does the message contain non US-ASCII characters that are valid
> non-roman characters?
>
> If this is true, the MTA rejects the message, typically with a terse,
> somewhat rude message like:
>
> 550 Sorry, noone speaks chinese here (in reply to end of DATA
> command)
>
> These are being triggered when any of our reSIProcate developers post a
> message to the list that contains either headers with non-roman UTF-8
> OR perhaps non-roman UTF-8 characters in the DATA portion of the SMTP
> transfer. (I'm not sure which it is.)
>
> I personally think this rule is short-sighted and makes the rather
> 'interesting' assumption that you do not wish to communicate with
> anyone that writes ANYTHING in a language other than English.
>
> I consider it a major benefit that we have a diverse community, and
> that we see multi-lingual signatures and names.
>
> I do not want any of our members to make changes to their signatures or
> posts to accommodate these broken MTAs. I DO want you to be aware of
> this problem, and to check with YOUR e-mail administration to ensure
> that they are taking measures to allow your reSIProcate (and I presume
> other) e-mail to continue reaching your inbox.
>
> Thanks for reading this far! I'm tempted to sign my name in Hiragana or
> something, but I want everyone to see this message. :-)
>
> Thanks
>
> Alan Hawrylyshen
> reSIProcate Project Administrator
> http://resiprocate.org/
>
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