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> List,
> 
> Aliases are not permitted to post to the list to help protect against
> spoofed mail headers.  If you would like to be allowed to post to the
> list without receiving mail from the list, send a note to
> xml-dev-owner@lists.xml.org

Have you guys considered that the inconvenience this policy imposes is greater 
than the likely burden of spam that is clever enough to explicitly post to: or 
cc: to the list?  I'm on many mailing lists which have a less intrusive policy 
and suffer little or no spam.

As it is, I've had to hack my local mail transport agent (Exim) in order to 
post to this list.  If I can do that, any spammer desperate enough to get 
around reasonable measures can do the same thing.


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Uche Ogbuji                                    Fourthought, Inc.
http://uche.ogbuji.net    http://4Suite.org    http://fourthought.com
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