On Sun, 2022-02-20 at 16:30 -0600, c. marlow wrote: > I am confused, if you don't check or fetch from this GMX account, > thennnn how do you know when people have answered you?
Oops, didn't finish before I hit send. They could also do what I do: Subscribe to the list with two addresses. Have list mail sent to one address. Reply on the other. I did that because I want to avoid receiving spam and private messages from strangers on the list. Twenty-plus years of being on mailing lists has taught me that they're full of nutters, and a prime cause of masses of spam. And that automatic anti-spam systems always screw up. I'd do it all (send and receive) through an external service, but they tend to erroneously reject list mail as spam, so I receive the messages on a service that doesn't do that, it only accepts mail from the list, and does no other filtering. Since I don't want that service to get spammed (not having to manage that traffic in any way), I avoid exposing its address by posting to the list from another address that rejects all mail. If you use the usual public services, gmail, yahoo, etc., they all have uncontrollable and fallible anti-spam systems. It means you have to continually check your junk mail folder for false positives (so what's the damn point in doing any filtering?). Or, you don't bother checking, and you seriously piss someone off who's been trying to contact you, or simply miss out on solutions to problems and work, completely unaware that you're missing some mail. -- uname -rsvp Linux 5.11.22-100.fc32.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed May 19 18:58:25 UTC 2021 x86_64 Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
