Nasty spam challenges
Craig White
craigwhite at azapple.com
Fri Dec 9 13:25:39 UTC 2005
On Fri, 2005-12-09 at 21:48 +1030, Tim wrote:
> Mike McCarty:
>
> >> This has been proposed more than once here; apparently this is
> >> not something the list manager(s) is(are) willing to do.
>
>
> Craig White:
>
> > No - they would rather this all move over to forums instead
>
> Ugh, I hope not. Web forums are a monumental timewaster, and become
> totally impractical if you're hoping to stay abreast of events on many
> different things. I'm on about a dozen different mailing lists, I
> couldn't manage that, at all, if they were web forums.
>
> If anyone was considering a change, it should be to usenet. It's the
> ideal mechanism for mass messages. You've got a plethora of on-line and
> off-line clients with filtering features that just isn't doable with a
> web forum. Not to mention that, with usenet, there's no need to expose
> an e-mail address to subject you to spam.
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https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2005-November/msg02632.html
Craig
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