> On Apr 10, 2017, at 1:01 PM, Philip Paeps <phi...@trouble.is> wrote: > > On 2017-04-10 21:50:01 (+0200), valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: >> On Mon, 10 Apr 2017 12:21:45 -0600, Ryan Harris via mailop said: >>> It might be helpful to understand why people want to post on email forums >>> rather than an abuse desk. Is it to gain public attention on the matter? Is >>> there a bit of shaming going on and the reporter wants the community to >>> know they are fed up with the ESP? Are people reporting on public forums >>> b/c they want to know if others are experiencing the same problem? >> >> Posting the spam itself on forums is pretty much pointless. >> >> On the other hand, having a forum where you can ask "Are the guys who are >> supposed to be dealing with ab...@robot-penguins.xyz merely clueless or >> actively rogue?" or "Does anybody have a contact at helium-filled-cows.com?" >> does have value.... > > I think this mailing list serves that purpose quite well. :)
That's not what it's for. It is (was?) for operational email issues. Discussion of spam was off-topic unless it had operational relevance. "I got spam from production.outlook.com, did anyone else?" is not that. It was lower volume and more useful when that was policed. Cheers, Steve (also, all y'all don't get to have any legitimate opinion about email until you've learned to trim your damn Cc: lines) _______________________________________________ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailop
