Greg A Woods <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> [ On , April 7, 2001 at 17:10:34 (-0700), Russ Allbery wrote: ]
>> I think the gnu.org -bug lists should be open to all comers. -bug
>> lists are by nature high-noise, and people who can't deal with a bit of
>> spam aren't going to be able to deal with
[ On , April 7, 2001 at 17:10:34 (-0700), Russ Allbery wrote: ]
> Subject: Handling spam on gnu.org mailing lists
>
> I think the gnu.org -bug lists should be open to all comers. -bug lists
> are by nature high-noise, and people who can't deal with a bit of spam
> aren't going to be able to deal
[ On , April 7, 2001 at 19:52:01 (-0400), Paul D. Smith wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: Spam, Bacon, Eggs & Spam (was: Re: yada $1.4M yada)
>
> I find subscriber-only lists annoying and elitist, and I don't subscribe
> to them.
That's too bad. With most modern MLM software they are one of the very
good
Russ Allbery wrote:
>
> Paul D Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Savannah doesn't support forums; the site explicitly says they're not
> > needed since we have mailing lists.
>
> > I agree with them: web-based forums suck compared to mailing lists. I
> > wish more SourceForge groups woul
[ On Saturday, April 7, 2001 at 20:43:07 (+0200), Tim Van Holder wrote: ]
> Subject: Spam, Bacon, Eggs & Spam (was: Re: yada $1.4M yada)
>
> I agree with the FSF on this one - better let through 10 spams than block
> 1 important mail; similar to your argument, most everyone on gnu.org
> mailing li
Paul D Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Savannah doesn't support forums; the site explicitly says they're not
> needed since we have mailing lists.
> I agree with them: web-based forums suck compared to mailing lists. I
> wish more SourceForge groups would use mailing lists instead of forums
D Stimits <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Unfortunately, the main and largest spam is only relayed through
> gnu.org, after automated mining of subscribers to the list (take a look
> at the full header of a few spam emails, you'll find many contain the
> gnu.org).
I think you're very confused and
Russ Allbery wrote:
>
> I think the gnu.org -bug lists should be open to all comers. -bug lists
> are by nature high-noise, and people who can't deal with a bit of spam
> aren't going to be able to deal with the truckloads of poorly specified
> and mostly unusable bug reports either.
>
> As for
I think the gnu.org -bug lists should be open to all comers. -bug lists
are by nature high-noise, and people who can't deal with a bit of spam
aren't going to be able to deal with the truckloads of poorly specified
and mostly unusable bug reports either.
As for working mailing lists such as this
%% "Tim Van Holder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> In fact I'd hope most such new lists will be set up so that only
>> subscribers may post freely to them.
I find subscriber-only lists annoying and elitist, and I don't subscribe
to them.
My company explicitly rewrites all my email so that i
"Greg A. Woods" wrote:
>
> [ On Friday, April 6, 2001 at 21:59:41 (-0600), D. Stimits wrote: ]
> > Subject: Re: Get your share of $1.4 million!
> >
> > How does garbage like this join and stay on a list? I get a ton of spam
> > that indicates it is routed through the gnu.org lists.
>
> Almost a
> Almost all of the spam I get these days comes directly from gnu.org.
Same here.
> > Can advertisers
> > and bulk spammers be removed?
>
> Officially, no.
>
> After sending similar complaints months ago (Jan 23, 2001) to the FSF I
> just finally tonight got an "official" reply from the vice pr
[ On Friday, April 6, 2001 at 21:59:41 (-0600), D. Stimits wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: Get your share of $1.4 million!
>
> How does garbage like this join and stay on a list? I get a ton of spam
> that indicates it is routed through the gnu.org lists.
Almost all of the spam I get these days comes dir
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