Hi, Andreas Fuchs wrote: >due to the volume of spam sent to this list (which generated annoying >moderator nag mails almost every day), I've set the posting policy of >this list to allow subscribers only
This is very sad, however I understand your (de)motivation. This is a sad world. Yet when the list is not open, then the web site should mention that. I see no mention of it in http://common-lisp.net/project/iterate/ "Section bugs, features and requests" Mentioning non-open mailing lists as a place for comments etc. is somewhat rude IMHO and very user unfriendly, as the user will receive a bounce (and must fear that no administrator ever takes care of his request because of too much work; that he didn't save it to send it anew etc.). My opinion is that lists should be open for newbies and part-time users to post, but then I've grown up in the pre-spam Internet. Technical measures should be taken against the world wide distributed denial of service against E-Mail services that spam de facto is (for example, I've received only one spam via iterate-devel these months, so not too bad filters exist). Sadly, I've no time to offer to help solve this problem on common-lisp.net. (The clisp lists on sourceforge also have had intermittent problems with spam, and people complained. Luckily, the situation is stable right now (SF seems to have mostly good enough filtering), and the clisp-user list is open (with some restrictions: no attachments, no MIME HTML). Please update the web site to state that subscription is required before one is able to post a single comment. I really hate that, but I fully understand the pain of spam and your decision not to loose more of your time as an administrator with spam, bounce mails and user complaints about spam (preferring user complaints about non-open mailing lists :-). BTW, http://common-lisp.net/mailman/listinfo has "no description available" about iterate-devel (and most mailing lists). Could someone knowledgeable fix that? Thanks for your investment in CL, Jörg Höhle _______________________________________________ iterate-devel site list iterate-devel@common-lisp.net http://common-lisp.net/mailman/listinfo/iterate-devel
