> This whole mailing list situation is really silly. When Michael Elkins
> ran the lists at Harvey Mudd College, they were open, and there was
> practically no spam. The new maintainer has admitted that the reason
> he closed the lists was not that there was a spam problem, but that he
> thought that there might be. It is especially ridiculous because
> mutt-dev is the address listed in "mutt -v" output as the address to
> send bug reports to, but Mr. Kennedy, in my experience, has not always
> bothered forwaring unapproved posts to the lists.
>
> Given that there is no current reason to have mutt-* closed,
Sure there is. I'm on 3 open lists (to my regret), and I get no less than
12 pieces of spam per day from each of them. On most of them (like gnuplot),
the content to spam ratio is pretty damn low. Once people figure out that the
list is open, it will end up on every spammer's bomb list. It gets old real
quick.
You don't buy insurance after the car crash, you buy it before. And if
there are no crashes, you count yourself lucky.
> and several good reasons against it, could we _please_ open them?
And what may that be? So that people with many mail addresses don't have to
fix their Froms? Be serious.
Fixing your mail to always come from a single address really isn't that
hard. Or subscribe both accounts, and send it to /dev/null on one. But
don't make your e-mail name problem into our spam problem.
[ Note: I realize that I'm coming off overly bitchy, but I'm the moderator
for about 6 lists, many more out of the way than mutt-users. And I know
exactly how many attempts are made to spam them. I also deal with the
massive amounts of drek/spam coming from gnuplot and cypherpunks, both of
which are unmoderated. It gets old. ]
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