On Fri, 29 May 1998, Ted Lemon wrote:

: > if you reject the message based on the headers or the body, you'll
: > incur the wrath of the list owner by bounce any spam to his mailbox.
: 
: ...which will encourage him or her to take whatever steps are
: necessary to limit the relaying of spam through the mailing list.
: I'm not sure this is a downside.

I wonder if it's possible (easy) to send back 5xx error for mail whose
envelopes don't match known list patterns, and just to accept (and drop)
mail who is spam from a list.  SM8.9 does have a $#drop mailer....

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