[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] LISTRIVIA (Spam and other things)
Please can we avoid discussion of spam on XML-DEV for whatever motives. A primary weapon against spam is ignoring it. It's easy to get sidetracked. After a few private mails the position as I understand it is: - XML-DEV (and another list that Henry moderates) had the "who" facility enabled, so that membership of the list could be requested. - I believe that Henry intends to disable this to avoid a spammer being able to access the distribution list (at least without cracking into the machine/list). - this means that people will no longer be able to read the name/address they were subscribed under and this may make unsubscription more difficult. - (un)subscribe costs Henry a lot of effort, and it is extremely boring and tedious. We owe a great debt to him for this labour underneath the surface. Anyone (un)subscribing should do as much as possible to lighten this load. [I get a number of people writing to me to ask to unsubscribe, so I expect the number that Henry gets is larger.] I suggest we adopt the great battle cry of the late great John Major : "wait and see". If the situation continues at present it's bearable - we all get spams/MMFs most days. My main concern is that (a) the workload gets increasingly heavy anyway and (b) more moderation of some sort is required. Personally I favour moderation at subscribe-time, rather than post-time if it really has to come to that, but I hope it doesn't. P. Peter Murray-Rust, Director Virtual School of Molecular Sciences, domestic net connection VSMS http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/vsms, Virtual Hyperglossary http://www.venus.co.uk/vhg xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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