The list may not see as many messages as it has in the past, but it is still a good place to make public announcements, which will then be received by many people. If I want to make such an announcement, I write to [email protected] first, and only after that look at msx.org and comp.sys.msx. Also, there is still the occasional discussion.
Perhaps we should campaign a bit for people to send more announcements to the list again? ;)
Sounds good to me :).
With regard to reading the list, I think you have insight in the number of subscribers and the amount of bounced mails... I'd say pretty much every mail which arrives at its destination is read (actually, keeping up with the mailinglist is a lot easier now than it used to be in the past :)).
Certainly. I recently moved all old mails to an archive folder (yeah, I keep them all) and then found that no new ones arrived.
I think I get at least 100 spams for every mail posted. But I can discard them all at once, so that's ok.
Hmm, thatâs annoying :/...
But, those are from unregistered mail addresses, right... If it proves too bothersome, you could just discard all mails not in the list of subscribers (that basically already happens, except that after a while legitimate mails are allowed in after all). I realise the limitations of such a thing, but on the other hand I donât think it would be too inconvenient. I personally at least wouldnât mind such a change :).
Doing that, it would be convenient though if people could add alias email addresses to their list account, or be able to subscribe addresses without receiving mail from the mailinglist on it. Thus facilitating people using a different address for sending and receiving mail. I donât know if that is already possible.
Another possibility would perhaps be to allow email from addresses which have partial matches with an existing list address. But thatâs less trivial.
So, I hope to have banned these evil thoughts from your mind ;p.
I didn't intend to get rid of it, I was just wondering how much attention I should keep paying to it. It does seem to run well without looking at it, only the number of posts that do not get through is quite huge so i should probably throw them out weekly or so.
Hmm... That would work as well.
It seems like it's much the other way around than when I took over; back then there were hundreds of real mails for every spam...
^_^
~Grauw
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