Re: Proposed change for subscriptions...
On Mon, 13 Mar 2006 13:10, Steve Lamb wrote:
> Kent West said:
> > I've been subscribed for several years, and have not felt abused by the
> > list managers.
>
> "He doesn't abuse me, I needed to be punished!" I used it to convey
> the fact that they are fully capable of closing a hole that spammers use
> to abuse the list to vector spam into the subscribers mailbox but choose
> not to. If that doesn't fall under abuse of the subscribers then what
> does it fall under in your opinion?
>
> --
> Steve Lamb
Hi Steve
You've been around long enough to know how things work. You know the
project has a policy of open, non-moderated mailing lists. You also know
that to change that policy you need to convince either the lists-masters or
the project as a whole. Abusing the lists-masters on -user won't help.
Seriously, how much spam are you getting from debian-user? My impression is
that the lists.debian.org filters are pretty good. I admit I don't
normally read -user, but the other 7 debian- lists I read currently average
less than 1 spam each per day.
Personally I like the fact that people can post from accounts which aren't
subscribed. It's very convenient to be able to add a cc to another list to
get an opinion on a issue from a specialised list. It makes it much easier
to cope with debians 141 active lists[0].
Andrew
[0] w3m -dump http://lists.debian.org/stats/ |cut -c60- |grep 2006-03 |wc -l
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