If we want a one-way announcement list, I'd say we're better off either using pypi-announce (which already has some announcements that aren't strictly about PyPI), or setting up a new packaging-announce list.
Thomas On Mon, 21 Sep 2020, at 15:09, Paul Ganssle wrote: > 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/ > > > -- > 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/4AI4XHDSYMBSIV2WF3PQDPR5DSMAGIFH/ > > > *Attachments:* > * signature.asc
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