What about those who can't use the google mailing list? On Sun, Apr 04, 2021 at 12:40:16PM +0100, Robert Osfield wrote: > Hi All, > > I have managed the osg-users mailing list for two decades with little > issues along the way, it mostly has just looked after itself. Alas today > is the last day as it's become an attack vector for bots to an extent that > it's swamping my support work. I'll be deleting the list later today, for > those that wish to continue with support please subscribe to the osg-users > google group: > > https://groups.google.com/g/osg-users > > This has become necessary as this year the osg-users and osg-submissions > lists have been under increasing target for nefarious bots that have been > attempting to subscribe a broad range of email addresses. It's now become > a deluge - I'm getting notifications of new attempts as I type this > message, and unfortunately there isn't any means I can find for mailman to > thwart this type of broad attack, so it's requiring an ever increasing > amount of manual work from me to clear the backlog of requests. > > There's also no way for me to know whether an address is a genuine > subscription so unfortunately there may be rejection that has happened > because the subscriptions are swamped by dozens of fake ones, many which > are plausible addresses. > > I'm a C++/OpenGL/Vulkan programmer playing wack a mole with bots trying to > abuse the community just isn't a good use of my time nor helpful for the > osg-users community. The osg-users google group doesn't look to be > affected by this attack vector so it'll be a far better place for us to > discuss OSG topics without the overhead of admin that the old mailman lists > now involve. > > I have already deleted the osg-submissions list as it's no longer active - > github.com PR's have taken over for quite a while now. > > I will leave the osg-uses mailing list up for the test of today. Then > delete it later today or tomorrow morning. > > Thanks for your patience, > Robert.
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