[CCTECH] List Management Q/A - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

9 Jul 2002

-     My opinions and thoughts are inline...

...
  From: 	Jeffrey Sharp

 This email contains answers to recent member questions, some new questions
 for members, and news of recent changes.

 .. Many
 people include email addresses in their sig blocks or introduce quoted
 text
 with "On mm/dd/yyyy, name <user@domain> wrote:" or similar lines. The
 obfuscator doesn't obfuscate these things, so the whole feature seems
 rather
 worthless to me. The spam-conscious should definitely use a different
 safety
 method.
  -	Keep the obfuscator running anyway...

...
  ....

 NEW QUESTIONS:

 Considering how vulnerable it is (see above), would anybody mind if I
 turned
 off the obfuscator?
  -	Yes. Heh, looks like I answered this before you even asked. ;)

...
  Currently, "[CCTECH]" is prepended to all
subject headers sent to cctech.
 Would anyone mind if I lowercased that to "[cctech]"? The capital letters
 seem to be screaming a little too much.
  -	Go ahead. Sounds fine to me.

...
  Would anyone mind if "[cctalk]" was appended
to all subject headers sent
 to
 cctalk?
  -	Hmmm, I recall a bit of noise when it was used originally. Isn't
that why it was killed before? Personally, I don't mind it, though.

...
  What are our opinions on the two-lists solution?
  -	So far, so good.

...
  Cctech isn't currently moderated. In fact, it
never has been AFAIK. It
 seems
 to have stayed on-topic without moderation. Are we ready for moderation to
 be turned on, or should we consider alternatives?
  -	Keep it as-is. The threat of moderation seems to be working okay. If
it does get out of hand, then turn on the moderation.

...
  RECENT CHANGES

 ...

 The date shown for archived posts has been changed from the 'sent' date
 (what the author says the date is) to the 'resent' date (what the
 classiccmp
 server thinks the date is). This will protect our archive from the people
 whose computers think it is 1970.
  -	Ahhh. Consistency is a good thing. :)

	Overall, many thanks to those who put in much time keeping these
lists running smoothly.

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