On 11/17/2011 21:54, Rob Weir wrote:
On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 8:53 PM, Dave Fisher<[email protected]> wrote:
HI Dennis,
+1. We'll need to include a [email protected] in the
migration plan.
Where the did [email protected] come from?
The documentation lists are here:
http://openoffice.org/projects/documentation/lists
I don't see any "feedback" list. And from what I can tell, the legacy
doc sets requested feedback to be sent to
[email protected]
In any case, we should remember that the SYMPA lists are overrun with
spam. Ask any moderator of these lists. Forwarding that spam to
another list would be very unkind, especially since the target list
would have no ability to unsubscribe the spammers, Neither would be.
You can see what that would lead to over time...
The best we might be able to do is send back a stock bounce notice for
incoming emails, with an explanation of the move to apache and a link
to a wiki page that shows where the common services and lists can now
be found. That would catch this case as well as any others.
-Rob
Hi, Rob,
That's a good thought about bad subscribers, but we haven't any on "my"
two lists, which are the lists in question. As a long-time subscriber,
and now owner/moderator of authors@ and dev@ doc.oo.o, I can attest that
there is a lot of spam (maybe 20/day) sent to the list addresses, all of
which ends up in the "to be moderated" queue; none of which is sent by
subscribers, and none of which gets distributed. Since no new spammers
would be able to subscribe to a dead list, spam by subscribers is not an
issue.
The actual use, i.e., valuable traffic, on those lists is very small,
but still important. I get one or two "nibbles" per week, from newcomers
wanting to help with documentation. My boilerplate reply sends them to
the wiki page, or even to LO.
I would strongly suggest that these two @oo.o addresses be forwarded to
ODFA (assuming they want that – we should ask), unless and until we
establish our own doc ML, and not forever; probably until we consider
OO.o v3.x obsolete. To use a famous figure, 500K addresses might
over-stress ezmlm, but two shouldn't.
Failing that, your suggestion of a targeted bounce message would
certainly be better than nothing.
--
/tj/
