Comment 2 for bug 341935

"Francis J. Lacoste" <email address hidden> writes:

> How is this really a problem?
>
> I mean this can't be really consider spam, really.

... sorry what? Launchpad is being (ab)used to send unsolicited emails
in bulk[1]. That's pretty much the dictionary definition of spam, no?

> And blacking out a SMTP server on that basis is kind of bullyish.

I didn't say we'd been 'blacked out' or even 'black listed' and
certainly not on that basis alone. I said it's contributing to us to
getting a bad reputation, i.e. that and other things (like #341927) is
causing us to have problems delivering mail to the larger providers.

> It's like forcing down "captcha" in user registrations all over the
> world.

I'm not trying to force captchas on anyone. All I'm suggesting is that
having a web form that sends email to any given address with no checking
that the person using the web form is a human, a) probably isn't the
best plan and b) is actively causing us problems right now.

I'm honestly stunned that this is at all controversial.

--
James

[1] From a single Feedback Loop (aol.com), I've seen at least 10 reports
    in a day of people reporting the registration email as spam.