Another possible middle ground between shuttering the list entirely and maintaining the spam would be (if possible) to close the list to new membership, but keep the existing list in place for the purpose of announcing important changes and things that need community input on the discourse.
On 9/21/20 9:50 AM, Thomas Kluyver wrote: > If it's not already the case, could someone configure the list so that only > subscribers can send messages? > > If we've already got any obvious anti-spam measures like that in place, then > I'm starting to agree that the signal to noise ratio has fallen too low. Of > the 10 latest conversations in the archive, 5 are spam, 2 are people > announcing that they're leaving the list, 2 real questions getting no > discussion, and 1 FYI about a discussion happening on Discourse. > > Thomas > > On Mon, 21 Sep 2020, at 14:33, Paul Moore wrote: >> I'm going to unsubscribe from this list, as it appears to be getting >> little but spam any more. I'll still be available on the Packaging >> topic on Discourse (https://discuss.python.org/c/packaging/14). >> >> To be honest, I think it's time to discontinue this list. But that's >> for others to decide. >> >> Paul >> -- >> Distutils-SIG mailing list -- distutils-sig@python.org >> To unsubscribe send an email to distutils-sig-le...@python.org >> https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/distutils-sig.python.org/ >> Message archived at >> https://mail.python.org/archives/list/distutils-sig@python.org/message/J66LYNCZKNJTJYRIAS63225Y5XJZK2CM/ >> > -- > Distutils-SIG mailing list -- distutils-sig@python.org > To unsubscribe send an email to distutils-sig-le...@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/distutils-sig.python.org/ > Message archived at > https://mail.python.org/archives/list/distutils-sig@python.org/message/DP7EXNLZ2GRKCSIAGCSFZWMPBD24NAUX/
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