Marc-Olivier Barre wrote:
> On 3/1/07, Robin Gareus <robin@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
>> he might be right. a random bot is more likely to spam
>> user@email-addr-hidden than linux-audio-user@...
> Ok, right...
>
>> a compromise woud be la-user, la-dev , la-ann -
>> or user-ml@.. (mailing-list), etc. (but that's not catchy enough)
> Agreed
>
>> I'd suggest to alias the other way round:
>> if dev@email-addr-hidden is Spammed, you can announce and drop this feature
>> again while everyone with "linux-audio-dev@email-addr-hidden" in their
>> address book won't ever notice.
>
> If I understand you well, it means making dev@email-addr-hidden an alias
> (that can be dropped if causing too much issues) right ?
yes. -lad , lau & laa are even better aliases!
retaining the orginal mailbox names, should also make it easier for
(external-)email-archives to migrate to the new archive...
>> in short term dev@.. will have less SPAM than linux-audio-dev, and in
>> the long-run SpamAssassin will mark dup.-postings in blacklists..
> Well, to be honest ATM there seems to be no spam on linux-audio-dev to
> be moderated and none received in my mailbox (from lad). It has always
> surprised me.
lucky you :) - maybe those spammers are friendly when they sense a lost
case or is linux-audio scaring them off? .grin.
in this case you can even provide more aliases, not that it would make
much sense...
>> OTOH; with dev@email-addr-hidden - we'd benefit from a shorter subject! [la-dev]
>> compared to [linux-audio-dev] - there are usually < 50 chars for subject
>> in a 80x24 terminal :) - for email shortcuts there is an addressbook and
>> personally I use "LAD" as nick for it.
>
> Prefix for the subject line can be changed. It's the subject_prefix
> parameter. we could make it [LAD], [LAU] and [LAA] (that's the
> shortest I can think of and it would make terminal users happy).
it might cause loads of readers to change their mail-filter(s). but
moving to linuxaudio.org will alter the X-Been-There header anyway.
just do it in one step. april fools day!
gonna be fun,
robin
Received on Fri Mar 2 00:15:03 2007
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