On Sat, 15 Sep 2018 03:23:05 -0500 John Newman <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > On September 14, 2018 4:28:59 PM CDT, Greg Newby <[email protected]> wrote: > >The big archive of pre-2016 postings that was shared last month from > >was dominated by spam, it seems. > > - Greg > > It's probably a bad idea to turn this feature on - enabling the bounces is > sufficient, IMO. > > However, if people really want it I would say turn it on, and watch minds > change when it introduces little (almost nothing) to the discussion, but we > start seeing spam out the ass. it seems rather pointless to me. People who are not subscribed are not even reading the list - why should they be able to post? And yeah the archives from the 2000s are mostly spam. 90% spam. Or maybe more.
