Mate Wierdl writes:

  Lately, apparently some messages sent to the list contained viruses,
  and some ISPs bounce  these messages back to the list manager which
  then sends out a warning message to you.  

As a footnote to the recent thread on whether the lyx-users list
should be available as a newsgroup -- this is one more reason that I
favor a newsgroup for LyX.  From my experience, newsgroups are far
less cluttered with messages containing viruses and housekeeping
messages like this one.  I don't mean to critize Mate, who does a fine
job as list manager, but it's the nature of the beast that unmoderated
mailing lists are vulnerable to viruses and spam.

In any case I'm not in favor of eliminating the mailing list, only of
also offering the more efficient alternative of a newsgroup for those
who prefer it.

-- 

Ronald Florence                 www.18james.com

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