20 Mar
2002
20 Mar
'02
1:46 a.m.
Er, this might be a little late...but...
There's been one really good suggestion made that everyone seems to have
glossed over: put something like "[OL]" before any message coming from an
un-subscribed address. That's all! You can make your e-mail client filter
that! you can make procmail filter that! If any off-list message was simply
MARKED, then each of us could deal with off-list stuff in our own way!
Personally, I don't care about it. Everything from classiccmp gets sent into
it's own little mailbox by procmail anyway -- hence why I'm replying to this
NOW, when I saw 300 new messages after the weekend I didn't have time to do
anything with it :) however, putting a marker like this on any off-list
message requires little work, avoids the possible problem of losing equipment
because someone who's about to thrown out that pdp-11 can't post a message,
and lets each list subscriber deal with such mail in any way he or she
wishes...
I'd also like to say that I think Jay does a fine job managing the list and
I'm grateful to him for doing so. Without him we wouldn't have a list, and
that's worse then a little spam, isn't it?
Roger Merchberger said:
Rumor has it that Doc may have mentioned these words:
- Dan Wright
(dtwright(a)uiuc.edu)
(http://www.uiuc.edu/~dtwright)
-] ------------------------------ [-] -------------------------------- [-
``Weave a circle round him thrice, / And close your eyes with holy dread,
For he on honeydew hath fed, / and drunk the milk of Paradise.''
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Kubla Khan
As far as Jay's performance running the
list, I'd like to make two
observations -
Unrestricted SPAM has been a very live topic for six weeks. I would
normally expect the List Operator to at least comment on feasibility of
the various proposals, and on the steps involved for the proposed
volunteers. I didn't see anything at all.
Not to sound like a prick, but you mightn't have looked all that hard... He
emailed the list just prior to 1 Mar 2002 (that's when I received a reply
from his request) asking for advice about what to do WRT spam & keeping the
list more open for nonsubscribers...
Today is March 15, 2002. The latest post
available from the online
archives is dated November 30, 2001. That's a hell of a lag.
He might have one hell of a job... Lord knows I'm a wee bit behind in my
'hobby-based duties' WRT my listserver & other things. At least it's up
&
running - methinks we should count our blessings to have a decent uptime,
nice, hi-bandwidth list to discuss our ancient friends *for Free*...
Jay, I know how thankless this 'free labor' can be, so lemme be the first
person to make it a little less thankless:
Thank You! :-)
And always, if there's anything I can do to help, just holler. I'll do
anything I can to help.
Laterz,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
--
Roger "Merch" Merchberger --- sysadmin, Iceberg Computers
Recycling is good, right??? Ok, so I'll recycle an old .sig.
If at first you don't succeed, nuclear warhead
disarmament should *not* be your first career choice.