[Announcement] New list administrator

[Joey deVilla]

Hello, subscribers to dev-list!
My name is Joey deVilla, and I'm the Tucows Technical Community 
Development Coordinator. One of the responsibilities of this position 
is to foster good relations between Tucows and the development 
community.

One of things I do in fulfilling that responsibility is manage the 
lines of communication between Tucows and developers. To that end, I 
have been assigned the responsibility of becoming the List 
Administrator (a.k.a. "List Dad" for the following mailing lists and 
newsgroups:

    - bizops-list
    - dev-list
    - discuss-list
    - tucows.nse.blogware.general
    - tucows.nse.blogware.dev
This position will largely involve "housekeeping" -- maintaining the 
lists and newsgroups listed above, unsubscribing accounts that are 
spamming, maintaining the archives. I will also do a little moderation 
-- in moderation. I will also be doing some research into your 
preferred forum of discussion and see how we can improve our feedback 
structure based on that.

I am on vacation at the moment and will start "active duty" as "List 
Dad" on Monday, June 28th. My first two major tasks will be:

1. Disable attachments
Right now, you can send attachments to the mailing lists, and this has 
been a vector to viruses and other types of "malware". I've discussed 
this with some other people here at Tucows, and we feel that there 
really isn't a need for people to post attachments to the mailing lists 
or newsgroups.

2. Disable subscribers whose email uses a challenge/response system
Challenge/response systems block automated mail systems, which are not 
only spam-senders, but mailing-list software as well. They play havoc 
with the mailing lists. To people who are subscribing to the lists 
using a challenge/response system, we ask that you create an email 
account solely for mailing list purposes.

If you have any questions, please feel free to drop me a line at 
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

-- Joey
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Joey deVilla - Tucows, Inc. - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
TC/DC (Technical Community Development Coordinator)
"Nerdy Deeds Done Dirt Cheap"