Re: Problems writing to clisp mailing list

Cameron MacKinnon wrote:
> Rob Thorpe wrote:
> > Cameron MacKinnon wrote:
> >
> >>Good grief, what a bunch of feebs must run that list!
>
> > It's normal these days to have to subscribe to a list before you can
> > post to it.
> > You get this message when you're not subscribed.
>
> If that's the standard error message these days, we've regressed. I can
> remember a time when the error message one received in that situation
> was appropriate and informative. And you'll never get me to accept that
> lying to legitimate posters is appropriate behaviour, regardless.

I don't know the practices of the clisp maintainers, and I'm not
necessarily defending them, but recent version of mailman do this by
default. The person who installed it may not even know.

> > Mailing lists that do not follow this practice are deluged with spam.
>
> http://www.paulgraham.com/spam.html
>
> Works great! Invented here! So sad to see people suggesting (in the FAQ)
> that the two alternatives are the computer indiscriminately lying to
> people or people doing drudgework which computers can demonstrably do as
> well or better.

That doesn't help the incoming mail. It's possible to block most of the
spam from the outgoing stream, but not vice versa.

I get stress from the IT guys where I work because my email address
recieves enough spam to use up quite a bit of bandwidth.

.

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