At 02:05 AM 7/23/2006, John R Pierce wrote:
The time has come to wonder if this list is worth keeping
open. each day, I delete a dozen or more spams from the list
input queue, and its been fewer than a couple actual messages a
month of late.
I think this list has outlived its usefulness. There are almost
700 subscribers, yet noone has anything to say...
What say you all?
Yes, this list has gone nearly dormant, probably due to the activity
shifting to the web forum. However, I loath reading messages on web
boards, and won't join them without a very good reason indeed. I
suspect I may not be the only one.
If this list is abandon, I -- and others of similar mind -- will be
entirely without contact with the project and unaware of updates and
changes to the software.
If the collective value of the conversation on this list isn't worth
the effort to police the spam (a non-trivial effort, I'm sure), then
perhaps it would be prudent to make this list "announcements only".
This would permit notice of software updates, bugs, new prime
numbers, and other such data to be communicated to those of us who
haven't yet bothered to figure out RSS.
By limiting the number of permitted posters to one, the amount of
spam and the time required for maintenance should become trivial.
Bruce Metcalf,
Lake Buena Vista, FL
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