On Wed, 15 Mar 2006, MJ Ray wrote: > -announce and -news are moderated lists. I think it's off-topic > for -announce (not major news or very important announcement)
When you factor that this will affect just about every tier-1 Debian user (i.e. those who deal with us directly for support), it is extremely important. I do mean unsubbing everyone from every mailing list, if you are going to do this, you do it all the way, so as to archieve a full database refresh. Unsubbing everyone just to find a backscatter problem is madness, the problem won't go away unless it was there by accident, which looks quite unlikely. We could do it to *pause* the backscatter for a small while and clean up the old cruft to lower the mailing list traffic (I'd guess at least 10% of the addresses will never join back). > > * Do a big "spring/fall cleanup" and unsubscribe *everyone*, with due > > advance notice of course. [...] > > That may well not work, due to gateways, and will kick all > innocent people off the list. Such a cleanup is not targeted at anyone, is a full database reinitialization. Innocents are not the issue, since it targets everyone on purpose. OTOH, it is rarely worth the trouble as it is a major pain in the neck for everybody. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
