Reposting again, and observing that the spam load has been particularly high for the last week for some reason. I think it’s the mailing list saying it’s had enough :)
Let’s sunset this one: Middle of September makes it a month since i set up the new Google Group. That’s probably an adequate time to start turning this one off. I had one person who couldn’t find the new list on the link below, but could with this one: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/aus-soaring <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/aus-soaring> No idea why one worked and the other didn’t, but I’m including it here for completeness. Regards, - mark > On Aug 26, 2018, at 3:21 AM, Mark Newton <[email protected]> wrote: > > Reposting from last week: > > Some of you might recall that this list was moved from Internode to Base64 > some time ago. > > Well: It’s moving again. > > The software which has been running the group is called Mailman, and it’s > showing its age. In particular, its ability to handle escalating volumes of > spam is somewhat compromised. The mailboxes of Simon and I fill up with vast > quantities of the stuff, and “backscatter attacks” cause Mailman to suspend > your subscriptions, causing us to field queries about unexpected > unsubscriptions. > > Simon and I had a quick chat about this last week, and decided to move it to > a Google Group. > > The group is called aus-soaring (naturally). You should be able to subscribe > to it by navigating to https://groups.google.com/d/forum/aus-soaring > <https://groups.google.com/d/forum/aus-soaring> and using the drop-down menu > button near the top right corner. > > Google Groups has far better spam protections, a good web interface, and you > can still interact with it by email if you wish. Once you’re on board, you > can email [email protected] to make your voice heard. > > For privacy reasons, I’m not going to force-subscribe anyone to the new > Group, you’ll need to do it yourself. > > We’re going to keep this list running on Base64’s mail server for another > month or so, but will eventually abandon it. There’ll be some more reminders > before that happens. > > Questions or comments? Fire away, happy to help. > > Regards, > > - mark > _______________________________________________ > Aus-soaring mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.base64.com.au/listinfo/aus-soaring
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