On Wed, 4 Feb 2004, Doug Kaufman wrote: > I, too, have been puzzled about the perceived problems with the > current list. Can those who advocate changing/moving post a message > outlining the problems so the rest of us can understand? Is sig.net > asking us to leave?
1- Nobody (mainly Thomas, the maintainer) has any control over the mailing-list and archives, hosted respectively by Verio and FLORA.org. 2- If Verio or FLORA.org go out of business, close, change the rules, or whatever, we'd have to move anyway. 3- Apparently all e-mails from non subscribers are sent to /dev/null without any moderation taking place. I know there was some moderation in the past (I also know some people complained it was done as a forward with everything quoted), but as I haven't seen any message from non subscribers in the last 2 years or so, I really doubt there's any actually. 'About Lynx-Dev' states: "Messages from non-subscribers are not immediately distributed to avoid spam. Usually, if your message appears genuine, it will be retrieved from the pile headed for the wastebasket within a day or so and distributed to the list. For best results, subscribe as described above." We point all people to lynx-dev. lynx-dev-contrib is only mentioned in the same page. Most people don't know it exists or subscribe to it since the above clearly states lynx-dev is moderated. 4- The mailing-list archives at FLORA.org are open for spam harvesters, as they don't hide the addresses. See what Savannah does - http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/dvdrtools-devel/2003-12/msg00002.html You only get the address using "Submit to http://mail.gnu.org/mp/yyz.py";. 5- The mailing-list archives at FLORA.org are full of spam which apparently gets sent to lynx-dev-archive at lists.flora.ottawa.on.ca. 6- I and Victor Schneider (http://www.flora.org/lynx-dev/html/month022004/msg00039.html) had problems posting. I don't know what went wrong for him, but I'm pretty sure 2 messages I sent with an address subscribed to lynx-dev-contrib didn't go through. 7- With Mailman (used by SourceForge and Savannah) and Listar (used by http://www.freelists.org/) we don't need a lynx-dev-contrib. Unlike Majordomo, the software provides nice features, one of which lets the user configure if he wants to receive e-mail. He can go on vacation and just disable it. No need to unsubscribe and resubscribe when he comes back. 8- This is the third and last time I take place on a thread about a possible move. Hope we do :-) -- How to contact me - http://www.pervalidus.net/contact.html ; To UNSUBSCRIBE: Send "unsubscribe lynx-dev" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
