Marc-Olivier Barre wrote: > On 3/1/07, Robin Gareus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> he might be right. a random bot is more likely to spam >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] than [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Ok, right... > >> a compromise woud be la-user, la-dev , la-ann - >> or [EMAIL PROTECTED] (mailing-list), etc. (but that's not catchy enough) > Agreed > >> I'd suggest to alias the other way round: >> if [EMAIL PROTECTED] is Spammed, you can announce and drop this feature >> again while everyone with "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" in their >> address book won't ever notice. > > If I understand you well, it means making [EMAIL PROTECTED] an alias > (that can be dropped if causing too much issues) right ?
yes. -lad , lau & laa are even better aliases! retaining the orginal mailbox names, should also make it easier for (external-)email-archives to migrate to the new archive... >> in short term [EMAIL PROTECTED] will have less SPAM than linux-audio-dev, >> and in >> the long-run SpamAssassin will mark dup.-postings in blacklists.. > Well, to be honest ATM there seems to be no spam on linux-audio-dev to > be moderated and none received in my mailbox (from lad). It has always > surprised me. lucky you :) - maybe those spammers are friendly when they sense a lost case or is linux-audio scaring them off? .grin. in this case you can even provide more aliases, not that it would make much sense... >> OTOH; with [EMAIL PROTECTED] - we'd benefit from a shorter subject! [la-dev] >> compared to [linux-audio-dev] - there are usually < 50 chars for subject >> in a 80x24 terminal :) - for email shortcuts there is an addressbook and >> personally I use "LAD" as nick for it. > > Prefix for the subject line can be changed. It's the subject_prefix > parameter. we could make it [LAD], [LAU] and [LAA] (that's the > shortest I can think of and it would make terminal users happy). it might cause loads of readers to change their mail-filter(s). but moving to linuxaudio.org will alter the X-Been-There header anyway. just do it in one step. april fools day! gonna be fun, robin