On 2018-06-04 21:30, Frank Farance wrote: > Hi, I enjoy reading the cygwin E-mails, one of the few E-mail lists I > regularly follow. And I've administered multiple E-mail lists over > two-plus decades. > > I've seen a bunch of spam, and it's continued for a while (beyond my > expectation that it would have already ended). This kinda spam is > typically solved by having the E-mail list restricted: only members can > submit to the list. Maybe this has been done already ... but if not, > please enable this mailing list feature. Now if those members start > submitting spam, then you can give them warnings and (ultimately) they > can lose their membership. And if people start forging E-mail > addresses, you can turn on various SPF-like features to make sure the > E-mail is coming from a that source (or an equivalent feature might work > well, too).
It isn't very nice to put "please email cygwin@cygwin.com" in error and warning messages then deny people the opportunity to send the email. "Please register first" is annoying as shit. I have certainly not reported bugs to lists that make me do that. The same applies to bug trackers. > If you would like to reply to me, please send your response to me > directly, DO NOT SEND TO THE LIST. I will summarize back to the list. > (Think: Old-School 1980s USENET unix-wizards kinda framework.) No thanks. I wish to discuss this openly.
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