On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 08:15:29PM +0300 or thereabouts, Andrei Popescu wrote: > Stephen <stephen.d.allen@gmail.com> wrote: <snip> > You should see debian-www, it's much worse and it has a fraction of the > traffic of d-u This is an argument for the status quo -- Just because another list is getting more ? <snip> > > This is why debian-user is being constantly blacklisted -- So the onus is on > > Debian to fix things on their end. Being too open has it's price, and > > it's the subscribers to this list that are basically being deluged with > > UCE, due to Debian not acting accordingly to the best of their ability. > > IMHO 'deluged' is a bit exagerated. Also you can spot most spam by > subject, so it's almost like filtering uninteresting threads. I don't agree with this thinking at all -- The onus should never be on the end user to jump through hoops. The sad fact is, that in all the e-mail lists I'm on, Debian is the culprit 99.9% of the time, in any UCE I receive. It's much easier to simply require new users to register, and reply to a confirmation e-mail IMO. It's appropriate to expect people to register for an e-mail list, yes, even for beginner type help. > > Hell, it's not like Debian.org doesn't have the expertise to do what's > > right IMO. > As I said, this has been discussed extensively and your arguments are > not new. Please don't reopen this issue as it generated a nasty > flamewar. I don't mind if you want to continue this off-list. Obviously it should be rethought, if people are upset with the status-quo. -- Regards Stephen +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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