Sorry, I re-checked my spam folder and the last one arrived Jul-24. On Fri, Aug 10, 2018 at 1:35 PM, <sky5w...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Whoa, I still receive spam from this mail list. :( > While hard to track, I cannot say the same with the forums I use. > Of course, forums can be hacked and emails exposed, but that is rare and > targeting richer bounty. > The fossil forum is a click away. If you resist, then write a crawler to > retrieve the forum posts you desire. > Or the forum can push changes to a subscriber. > I prefer to leave them in the forum. > > On Fri, Aug 10, 2018 at 10:34 AM, Warren Young <war...@etr-usa.com> wrote: > >> On Aug 10, 2018, at 7:19 AM, Andy Bradford <amb-fos...@bradfords.org> >> wrote: >> > >> > Thus said Warren Young on Wed, 08 Aug 2018 11:45:09 -0600: >> > >> >>> Will this ever be enabled? I prefer email over web forum posting. >> >> >> >> How would you prevent spammers from using an email submission >> >> mechanism? >> > >> > Most mailing list managers prevent this by only allowing subscribers to >> > submit emails. I cannot recall the last time I saw spam sent to >> > fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org… >> >> That’s not the problem described in the thread I linked you to: >> >> http://sqlite.1065341.n5.nabble.com/Problems-with-v3-9-0- >> entry-point-sqlite3-finalize-could-not-be-located-td85005.html#a85069 >> >> You only need to read the first post, not the whole thread. >> >> Fossil forums prevent that problem. >> >> > Gmail supports email aliases. >> >> If you’re speaking of the free Gmail product, it only supports the >> user+...@example.com style, which fools no spammer. They just strip the >> +ext bit off. >> >> If you mean G Suite, you only get 30 of them per account. I run the mail >> server for my personal domains, and I have 240 aliases on my main email >> account. You want lots of aliases because it allows you to have unique >> email addresses for any site whose security you are not entirely certain >> about. >> >> I wish I’d created *more* aliases, in fact, because my real email address >> gets most of the spam I receive, by far, suggesting that I should have >> hidden it more often. >> >> >> If we don't solve that problem first, we'll be right back in much the >> >> same mess as today. >> > >> > Replacing a mailing list with a web forum seems to simply trade one set >> > of problems for another. >> >> Every choice worth spending thought on has tradeoffs. >> >> drh has made his choice. I don’t think you’re going to sway him on this. >> >> > I'm on dozens of other public mailing lists >> > that get a lot more traffic than Fossil Users does and there seems to be >> > no problems there… >> >> Roughly 80-90% of mail traffic is spam, but that’s not a problem? >> >> https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/q/2175 >> >> > Why don't we leave both in place and see what people prefer to use? >> >> I made that very suggestion earlier. >> >> > Those who are willing to live with the problems that come with email >> > will express their preference by continuing to use email. >> >> Some of the burdens fall on drh, rather than on the users of the mailing >> list, so he has some say in how all of this goes. >> >> > Is the web forum now moderated? >> >> Yes, from day 1. I am one of the moderators. >> >> > Does it help? >> >> No spam has made it into the forum blockchain yet. >> >> I also haven’t seen anyone attempt to spam the forum. If it never >> happens, that’s fine with me. >> _______________________________________________ >> fossil-users mailing list >> fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org >> http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users >> > >
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