From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Sat Mar 01 23:00:23 2008 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list llg-board); Sat, 01 Mar 2008 23:00:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1JViBL-0008Kw-19; Sat, 01 Mar 2008 23:00:23 -0800 Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2008 23:00:23 -0800 From: Robin Lee Powell To: Jim Dabell Cc: llg-board@lojban.org Subject: [llg-board] Re: Lojban mailing list Message-ID: <20080302070023.GS24043@digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: Jim Dabell , llg-board@lojban.org References: <200803012103.41741.jim@lojban.dabell.name> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200803012103.41741.jim@lojban.dabell.name> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17+20080114 (2008-01-14) X-archive-position: 362 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: llg-board-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: llg-board-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: llg-board@lojban.org X-list: llg-board On Sat, Mar 01, 2008 at 09:03:41PM +0000, Jim Dabell wrote: > > Hi, just a quick request; I used to be subscribed to a Lojban > mailing list but unsubscribed due to being swamped with spam. > There's two problems here: firstly, the email address of anybody > posting is exposed in the archives (meaning spam harvesters grab > your email address), That is true. > and people who aren't subscribed to the list can post to it > (meaning you relay spam to subscribers). *blink* That's certainly not true; what makes you say that? > The former is a real problem because it doesn't go away once you > unsubscribe, but they are both pretty annoying. > > Is there any chance you could take a look at this? Most mailing > list software has options for obfuscation and subscriber-only > posting, so I doubt it will be any trouble. I've historically been resistant to changing this option, because I *like* people being able to send private mail on the basis of old mailing list threads, if the opportunity arises. Furthermore, it's been my experience that if you can't handle the spam that being on lojban-list generates for you, you need a better spam system *anyways*. However, I'm copying this to the rest of the board in case any of them have strong opinions on the issue, as my opinions are rather mild. -Robi -- Lojban Reason #17: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo Proud Supporter of the Singularity Institute - http://singinst.org/ http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** http://www.lojban.org/