[4042] in Humor
Re: junk email on the humor mailing list...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Usman O Akeju)
Wed May 28 22:19:42 2003
Message-Id: <200305290219.WAA14637@cathedral-seven.mit.edu>
To: "Valmik K. Vyas" <valmik@alum.MIT.EDU>
cc: humor@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 28 May 2003 21:17:25 EDT."
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Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 22:19:24 -0400
From: Usman O Akeju <manus@MIT.EDU>
One option to reduce the amount of spam might be to make the list a
Mailman list (see http://web.mit.edu/lists/mailman/index.html) and have
all non-list member email bounced. There are other list configuration
options that would make such a transition pretty much painless, but
since there isn't much IS support yet I'm not sure what they are.
The major disadvantage of switching to Mailman is that there would have
to be at least one list moderator. The current list owner is the user
pug, but since the list is public, I don't think she's had to do much
moderating. Still, the amount work for the moderator would likely
depend on the list's configuration options.
Sorry that wasn't funny, but anyway..
Just for the hell of it, I've created the NEW public list humour@mit.edu
Strictly for British humouououour, whatever that means.
You should be able to blanche yourself to it within a few hours.
-Usman
> i apologize in advance for sending this out to the humor list...i
> misplaced the address for the administrative list (could someone let me
> know what the address for that list is?).
>
> it seems as though the amount of spam that hits this list is getting a
> bit high...
> i would like to know if this is a problem being dealt with (some sort of
> filtering?)?
> since i've graduated/left mit, i'm not sure what exactly could be done
> to minimize this problem on the mailing list level, if anything...
>
> thanks,
> valmik
