Effective immediately, the sender email address for mailing list posts will be elided. All replies must go back to the mailing list itself.
The reason for this change is to combat the "Alexa" spam. For the past few weeks, whenever anybody posts to the mailing list, that person gets a reply from "Alexa" that contains not-safe-for-work photos and also (presumably) malware. We have tried other techniques to thwart Alexa, but we have so far been unable to figure out which of 2000+ subscribers is providing Alexa with the sender's email address. Hence, we have token the radical approach of denying the sender email address to *everyone*. This is sad. It means that sending off-list replies (something I do frequently) is no longer possible unless the sender includes their email address in the signature line (as I do - see below). But it is what it is. We live in a fallen world. Pray for the wretched soul of the Alexa spammer that he might turn from his wicked ways and find forgiveness. -- D. Richard Hipp drh at sqlite.org
