Re: explanation of the noise (was Re: Norton AntiVirus detected and quarantined a virus in a message you sent.)

[moseley@hank.org]

On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 10:31:58AM +0200, Nicos Gollan wrote:
> On Wednesday 20 August 2003 04:10, Carl Fink wrote:
> > How about this list silently discarding (or bouncing) all messages
> > that contain attachments over 2K?  (Exception there to cover PGP
> > signatures.)
> 
> Because your average /var/log/XFree86.0.log is longer than 2K ;-)

A very old and worn out discussion is: why not make the lists subscriber 
only?  

Is there another reason other than too much traffic?

As for too much traffic, what I have done is subscribe, post requesting 
to get a Cc: and then unsubscribe when I see my post come back.  Seems a 
minor inconvenience for getting free and high quality (in most cases ;) 
support.

With the amount of spam going around these days I think open 
lists are not very responsible -- why provide (in effect) an open relay?


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Bill Moseley
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