Hi all, Sorry to bother you with a message about spam. I have noticed two things about this mailing list: * Every once in a while, we get messages like "your e-mail is under consideration for sending to the list". This suggests that the mailing list is moderated, and that there is some person deciding on what can and what cannot be sent to the list. (One could discuss wether it is a good idea to send these messages to the whole list rather than just to the person who sent them, but let us not discuss that here.) * Very often, we get spam e-mail. This suggests that nobody is moderating the list. These two observations are in contradiction with each other. Couldn't we allow list subscribers to submit to the list without problems, whereas non-list subscribers have to be approved by a list moderator? Just my 2 öre, /Koen.
On Fri, 30 Aug 2002, Koen Claessen wrote:
* Every once in a while, we get messages like "your e-mail is under consideration for sending to the list". This suggests that the mailing list is moderated, and that there is some person deciding on what can and what cannot be sent to the list.
I can only recall seeing these on the hugs specific lists (hugs-users, hugs-bugs), not the more general Haskell lists and they seem to be auto-triggered by e-mail size. It wouldn't surprise me to learn they're administered differently from haskell and haskell-cafe and just get relayed through haskell.org. However I fully agree with you that spam is a real problem (I estimate at least 50% of the spam I get comes from the Haskell/hugs lists). ___cheers,_dave_________________________________________________________ www.cs.bris.ac.uk/~tweed/ | `It's no good going home to practise email:tweed@cs.bris.ac.uk | a Special Outdoor Song which Has To Be work tel:(0117) 954-5250 | Sung In The Snow' -- Winnie the Pooh
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