Re: mailing list madness

1999-02-14 Thread Steve Kennedy
On Sat, Feb 13, 1999 at 10:57:45PM -0800, Daniel Eisenbud wrote: > On Sat, Feb 13, 1999 at 07:57:54AM -0500, Jeremy Blosser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > addresses have not gone through quickly. Steve said that he usually > forwards interesting things. So this is something, but I still think it

Re: mailing list madness

1999-02-14 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Sat, Feb 13, 1999 at 10:57:45PM -0800, Daniel Eisenbud wrote: > On Sat, Feb 13, 1999 at 07:57:54AM -0500, Jeremy Blosser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Actually, TLR said that he would prefer to have the lists open. But > he's not running the lists, Steve Kennedy is. I will be glad to be one

Re: mailing list madness

1999-02-14 Thread Daniel Eisenbud
On Sat, Feb 13, 1999 at 07:57:54AM -0500, Jeremy Blosser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ok I really didn't want to say this out loud, but /I'm/ getting tired of > this thread, which IMO is the most 'spam' I've seen through this list next > to bounce messages. I'm getting tired of it too, and will d

Re: mailing list madness

1999-02-13 Thread Jeremy Blosser
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Re: mailing list madness

1999-02-13 Thread Daniel Eisenbud
On Fri, Feb 12, 1999 at 10:38:57PM -0500, rfi from Rich Roth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Feb 05, 1999 at 11:25:56PM -0800, Daniel Eisenbud wrote: > > > This whole mailing list situation is really silly. When Michael Elkins > > ran the lists at Harvey Mudd College, they were open, and t

Re: mailing list madness

1999-02-12 Thread rfi from Rich Roth
On Fri, Feb 05, 1999 at 11:25:56PM -0800, Daniel Eisenbud wrote: > 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 The world is no

Re: mailing list madness

1999-02-09 Thread David DeSimone
Stefan `Sec` Zehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sat, Feb 06, 1999 at 09:55:23PM -0600, David DeSimone wrote: Maybe I should start using group-reply at all times, but that gives the old dupe-message problem, solved only if the remote users uses Mutt (or some sort of de-duping agent; most don't). no

Re: mailing list madness

1999-02-07 Thread Stefan `Sec` Zehl
On Sat, Feb 06, 1999 at 09:55:23PM -0600, David DeSimone wrote: > Maybe I should start using group-reply at all times, but that gives the > old dupe-message problem, solved only if the remote users uses Mutt (or > some sort of de-duping agent; most don't). not completely correct. Mutt uses 'Mail-

Re: mailing list madness

1999-02-07 Thread Thomas Roessler
On Sat, Feb 06, 1999 at 01:02:53PM -0500, Stan Ryckman wrote: > The procmail list is open (for similar reasons; the procmail man > page points to it), yet it only gets maybe one piece of spam per > month. How? It only accepts posts that have the list address in > the To: or Cc: header. Nearly a

Re: mailing list madness

1999-02-07 Thread Erwan David
Le Sat 06/02/1999, David DeSimone disait > Daniel Eisenbud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Did you _read_ the beginning of my post that you quoted above? I give > > another really good reason or two for at least mutt-dev to be open. > > Because it's listed in the "mutt -v" output, right? Sou

Re: mailing list madness

1999-02-07 Thread Brad Shelton
On Sat, Feb 06, 1999 at 05:40:04AM -0800, Joe Rhett wrote: > > 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. Hell yes. The whole reason

Re: mailing list madness

1999-02-06 Thread David DeSimone
Daniel Eisenbud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Did you _read_ the beginning of my post that you quoted above? I give > another really good reason or two for at least mutt-dev to be open. Because it's listed in the "mutt -v" output, right? Sounds reasonable to me, but I usually assume that peopl

Re: mailing list madness

1999-02-06 Thread Joe Rhett
On Sat, Feb 06, 1999 at 04:40:34PM -0800, Daniel Eisenbud wrote: > This would also be really useful, and is something I wished majordomo > had. Alternately, how about just letting the administrator specify two > files to read authorized users from? This might well be easier, and > then one of

Re: mailing list madness

1999-02-06 Thread Daniel Eisenbud
On Sat, Feb 06, 1999 at 04:31:13PM -0800, Joe Rhett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 06, 1999 at 01:02:53PM -0500, Stan Ryckman wrote: > > > The procmail list is open (for similar reasons; the procmail man page > > points to it), yet it only gets maybe one piece of spam per month. > >

Re: mailing list madness

1999-02-06 Thread Joe Rhett
On Sat, Feb 06, 1999 at 01:02:53PM -0500, Stan Ryckman wrote: > The procmail list is open (for similar reasons; the procmail man page > points to it), yet it only gets maybe one piece of spam per month. > How? It only accepts posts that have the list address in the To: or Cc: > header. Nearly

Re: mailing list madness

1999-02-06 Thread Daniel Eisenbud
On Sat, Feb 06, 1999 at 05:40:04AM -0800, Joe Rhett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 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 r

Re: mailing list madness

1999-02-06 Thread Stan Ryckman
At 05:40 AM 2/6/99 -0800, Joe Rhett wrote: >> 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 pret

Re: mailing list madness

1999-02-06 Thread Joe Rhett
> 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 > though

mailing list madness

1999-02-06 Thread Daniel Eisenbud
On Sat, Feb 06, 1999 at 08:06:39AM +0100, Peter van Dijk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Err... no. My MTA masquerades as attic.vuurwerk.nl, like it should. Only for some > (broken) mailinglists (like this one) I need to set my from-address to the address > I'm subscribed under (peter-mutt goes into