On Sat, 7 Feb 2004, [ISO-8859-1] Fr�d�ric L. W. Meunier wrote: > On Thu, 5 Feb 2004, SP-BEI wrote: > > > I'll go with whatever the Lynx community wants to do. If the > > decision is to move the list elsewhere, I'll offer what help > > that I can in keeping the [EMAIL PROTECTED] alive for as long > > as possible. Of course the list is just part of the support > > issue here. Maintaining the list and source archives might > > also be a goal. I was waiting for someone to step up for > > that after the non-Gnu project page was created. > > So, do we have an agreement ? And maybe you Bob can be the > third administrator / moderator ? > > I can't do anything without you. > > What I proposed:
That's fine with me. How do we move forward? > Yes, we could just add the 140+ automatically, but we don't > know how many are still "valid". We'll be able to tell once it's moved by looking at bounces. > Or we can. Opinions ? > > 5- Contact the lynx-dev-contrib subscribers and ask if they > want to be added in a list of addresses that can only post. sounds fine. > 6- If someone tries to subscribe to the old lynx-dev and > lynx-dev-contrib, send them a message about the move. > > The same could be made for messages from non subscribers. But > then you'd probably send hundreds of e-mails back to spammers. I'm assuming that it'll be filtered like the ncurses list (so there's the choice of simply discarding spam). > 7- Remove the spam from the FLORA.org archives. I already did > it for 2000-January 2004 (thanks to Pine), and really don't > think there was any before it. Well, there was one in December > 1999, but that's probably all. A spam (probably from a > subscriber) in thousands of messages isn't that bad. 90% or > more was. I'm told that the "real" archives aren't in mbox form, but as a database. > 8- Once we're done we can ask FLORA.org to redirect everything > under http://www.flora.org/lynx-dev/ to the main page of the > new archives. -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net ; To UNSUBSCRIBE: Send "unsubscribe lynx-dev" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
