On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 01:30:56AM +0200, Jo wrote: > Kern Sibbald wrote: > > >So, what I am suggesting as a *possibility* is: > >- Modify the bacula-users (and probably bacula-devel) list to be subscriber > >only. > > > >What I don't like about this is that some users (such as myself) don't want > >to > >subscribe to lists even to get help, so their email will probably be lost, > >or > >at best, they will be confused and frustrated. In a sense, it is reducing > >our service ... At the current levels, the spam does not really bother me, > >but I can understand that it does bother a good number of you, so I have no > >problem changing the list as noted above. > > > >Before embarking on this change, I would appreciate some feedback from those > >who are concerned -- you. > > > My vote goes to a subscribers only list. On the OpenOffice.org lists I > can understand people don't even want to be subscribed for a day or two, > but this list is relatively low volume. People can always unsubscribe > when their problem is solved, but in general it's good 'to stay in > touch'. Especially for such crucially important software as a backup > solution.
I get a lot of spam, and the spam levels on this list are very very low compared to my typical spam loads. I think closing the list is premature. Moreover, other closed lists that I'm on occasionally get spam from listmembers whose machines are compromised (100.00% windows 'bots, so far). > While we're at it. It would be nice to have the reply-to field set to > the list where the mail came from and not to the person who sent the > mail. Even though I switched to a mail client that has a send to all > button, I constantly forget that I have to press on that one to get mail > delivered correctly for this list. The two opposing positions are: http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html http://marc.merlins.org/netrants/reply-to-useful.html I have no particular opinion one way or another, but popular sentiment (including mailman's default settings) very much favor the first of the two. -- Henry Yen Aegis Information Systems, Inc. Senior Systems Programmer Hicksville, New York ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by Oracle Space Sweepstakes Want to be the first software developer in space? Enter now for the Oracle Space Sweepstakes! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7412&alloc_id=16344&op=click _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
