On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 09:36:20AM -0400, rickman wrote: > On 4/13/2011 8:56 AM, ge...@igor2.repo.hu wrote: >> On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 01:02:40PM +0100, Andrew Seddon wrote: >>> Yes I got this. >>> >>> OT: I'm new hear so please feel free to ignore this comment, but might >>> it be worth switching to google groups or similar? The interface is >>> nice and you can use it like a traditional mailing list if desired. >> Last year we tried that for challenge24 to remove some load from our >> servers during the contest. It works fine as long as you are using web >> and especially if you have google account, but for a plain, non-google >> user with email only it wasn't that good. I can not recall what exactly >> went wrong, but I remember we had to switch back to mailman running on >> our own server. >> >> I personally would be more happy to keep the mailing list "private" - of >> course I am not the one who contributes hosting, bandwidth or admin >> time. > > I hope this thread doesn't go on too long. I had received email from > this guy at another address so I wasn't sure if the problem had > something to do with my security or if he had harvested from this group. > I guess it was the latter. > > I think there is a lot of private email sent as a result of things > discussed on this list. So making the list private might not be the > best way to handle the spam. In fact, I've only gotten one spam email > from this list that I can remember so clearly the problem isn't very > bad. That isn't why I posted about this.
Sorry, missunderstanding. By private I meant hosted privately instead of hosted by some 3rd company like google. _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user