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Re: changing linux-help to mailman?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (seph)
Wed Nov 5 14:55:04 2003

To: linux-dev@mit.edu
From: seph <seph@MIT.EDU>
Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2003 14:54:43 -0500
In-Reply-To: <200311051949.hA5JnQa2023163@myxomycete.mit.edu> (Camilla R.
 Fox's message of "Wed, 05 Nov 2003 14:49:26 -0500")

> Unlike bugs, linux-help does get a fair amount of legitimate mail from
> non-MIT senters, so I don't think this is a good idea.

Ah, the last couple threads don't seem to have had any. 

> If you'd still like to make it a mailman list, you could hold-for-approval
> mail from non-MIT senders, but I'd ask you to comit to moderating it in
> a timely manner.

given the volume, I think this is infeasible.

> If you get someone to turn on full headers in the discuss archive (this
> should be totally painless), I'd be happy to delete future spam from that,
> for you, though.

this is probably the best option. I'll ask one of the discuss maintainers.

seph

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