Re: english text only?

2002-03-23 Thread Kenneth Loafman
- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Eric Siegerman Sent: March 19, 2002 10:38 AM To: cvsInfo Subject: Re: english text only? On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 07:15:12PM +0100, Leif Hanack wrote: i'm new to this mailing-list and i'm wondering myself

Re: english text only?

2002-03-23 Thread Mike Castle
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Greg A. Woods [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Those of you looking for a different context to host this forum in seem to forget that CVS _is_ GNU software, and having the mailing list hosted @gnu.org is quite important. For many of us the highly over- If it *is* gnu

Re: english text only?

2002-03-23 Thread Greg A. Woods
[ On Saturday, March 23, 2002 at 13:05:34 (-0800), Mike Castle wrote: ] Subject: Re: english text only? In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Greg A. Woods [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Those of you looking for a different context to host this forum in seem to forget that CVS _is_ GNU software

Re: english text only?

2002-03-22 Thread Todd Denniston
Eric Siegerman wrote: On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 05:44:27PM -0500, Greg A. Woods wrote: Surely you know about [EMAIL PROTECTED] too -- it's in the SMTP envelope of, and multiple times in all the headers of, every message from this list. Also [EMAIL PROTECTED], to which their web site

Re: english text only?

2002-03-22 Thread Eric Siegerman
On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 09:56:11AM -0500, Todd Denniston wrote: http://www.gnu.org/prep/mailinglists.html#General Information about info-* lists makes me wonder if we could get the list turned into a moderated where the moderator is a program that: [filters out obvious junk and approves the

RE: english text only?

2002-03-21 Thread Martin Rohrig
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Stephen Leake Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 4:25 PM [...] Which suggests a solution; eliminate the mailing list, and let everyone read this as a newsgroup. Newsgroups get much less spam. How many

Re: english text only?

2002-03-21 Thread Jani Kajala
. Regards, Jani Kajala - Original Message - From: Martin Rohrig [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Stephen Leake [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2002 12:16 PM Subject: RE: english text only? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: english text only?

2002-03-21 Thread Greg A. Woods
[ On Thursday, March 21, 2002 at 14:40:46 (+0200), Jani Kajala wrote: ] Subject: Re: english text only? At least Yahoo Groups do not allow non-subscribers to send mail to a list. If the administration of this list can't be reached then I suggest the list is moved to Yahoo Groups instead

Re: english text only?

2002-03-21 Thread Todd Denniston
Greg A. Woods wrote: SNIP If _EVERYONE_ who was concerned about this issue would contact the list administrators directly instead of just posting a meta disussion to the list itself then maybe something would happen. So far as I know there have only been a very tiny percentage of us

Re: english text only?

2002-03-21 Thread David Taylor
Greg A. Woods wrote: If _EVERYONE_ who was concerned about this issue would contact the list administrators directly instead of just posting a meta disussion to the list itself then maybe something would happen. So far as I know there have only been a very tiny percentage of us contacting

Re: english text only?

2002-03-21 Thread Greg A. Woods
[ On Thursday, March 21, 2002 at 16:36:32 (-0500), Todd Denniston wrote: ] Subject: Re: english text only? do you mean: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] found at the bottom of http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs that's one of them, I think. this is the only thing I could find

Re: english text only?

2002-03-21 Thread Eric Siegerman
On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 05:44:27PM -0500, Greg A. Woods wrote: Surely you know about [EMAIL PROTECTED] too -- it's in the SMTP envelope of, and multiple times in all the headers of, every message from this list. Also [EMAIL PROTECTED], to which their web site says comments should be directed:

Re: english text only?

2002-03-21 Thread Stephen Leake
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Greg A. Woods) writes: [ On Thursday, March 21, 2002 at 01:14:22 (GMT), Stephen Leake wrote: ] Subject: Re: english text only? Can you say why? I read email and new with Emacs Gnus, and I can't tell the difference between the email and the news; they are all just

Re: english text only?

2002-03-20 Thread Stephen Leake
Mark A. Flacy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: List? What list? I'm reading this in the newsgroup gnu.cvs.help. Which suggests a solution; eliminate the mailing list, and let everyone read this as a newsgroup. Newsgroups get much less spam. How many people reading this have mail access, but not

Re: english text only?

2002-03-20 Thread R P Herrold
On Wed, 20 Mar 2002, Stephen Leake wrote: Which suggests a solution; eliminate the mailing list, and let everyone read this as a newsgroup. Newsgroups get much less spam. How many people reading this have mail access, but not newsgroup access? This is not rocket science -- set Mailman to

Re: english text only?

2002-03-20 Thread Greg A. Woods
[ On Wednesday, March 20, 2002 at 15:24:35 (GMT), Stephen Leake wrote: ] Subject: Re: english text only? Which suggests a solution; eliminate the mailing list, and let everyone read this as a newsgroup. Newsgroups get much less spam. The newsgroup won't get less spam unless you can convince

Re: english text only?

2002-03-20 Thread Mark A. Flacy
Greg == Greg A Woods [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Greg Greg Count me out. I don't do news much any more -- e-mail is far easier for Greg me to handle. I'll stay on the list and continue to campaign for Greg subscriber-only access (which will at least kill half the spam or more). (dons NOMEX

Re: english text only?

2002-03-20 Thread Greg A. Woods
[ On , March 19, 2002 at 14:20:19 (-0600), Mark A. Flacy wrote: ] Subject: Re: english text only? List? What list? I'm reading this in the newsgroup gnu.cvs.help. info-cvs is primarily, and was originally, a mailing list, hosted at gnu.org. It is also gatewayed to the GNUsenet system

Re: english text only?

2002-03-20 Thread Greg A. Woods
[ On Tuesday, March 19, 2002 at 12:51:31 (-0800), Tom Plunket wrote: ] Subject: Re: english text only? Daniels, David wrote: Agreed. We can't seem to get the list managers to take action, though. It would make the Usenet interface tough to handle, then... What would? Filtering spam

RE: english text only?

2002-03-20 Thread Leif Hanack
I'm willing to take my chances, I don't know of any spammers that would take the time to join a mailing list in order to spam, blocking outside senders has completely stopped spam on another list that I am on, I'm pretty sure it'd be helpful here too. that is even my experience!

Re: english text only?

2002-03-20 Thread Stephen Leake
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Greg A. Woods) Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 16:29:23 -0500 (EST) [...] How many people reading this have mail access, but not newsgroup access? Count me out. Me too. Newsgroups, in my experience, are awash

Re: english text only?

2002-03-20 Thread Stephen Leake
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Greg A. Woods) writes: [ On Wednesday, March 20, 2002 at 15:24:35 (GMT), Stephen Leake wrote: ] Subject: Re: english text only? Which suggests a solution; eliminate the mailing list, and let everyone read this as a newsgroup. Newsgroups get much less spam

Re: english text only?

2002-03-20 Thread Greg A. Woods
[ On , March 20, 2002 at 17:16:11 (-0600), Mark A. Flacy wrote: ] Subject: Re: english text only? Reads as if you are using poor tools for your news reader. I have a plethora of most excellent news readers available for my use, and I am an expert user of most of them (though I generally

Re: english text only?

2002-03-20 Thread Greg A. Woods
[ On Thursday, March 21, 2002 at 01:14:22 (GMT), Stephen Leake wrote: ] Subject: Re: english text only? Can you say why? I read email and new with Emacs Gnus, and I can't tell the difference between the email and the news; they are all just groups. What news reader software have you tried

Re: english text only?

2002-03-19 Thread Eric Siegerman
On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 07:15:12PM +0100, Leif Hanack wrote: i'm new to this mailing-list and i'm wondering myself why i receive mails with strange characters in it. i guess it is japanese or stuff like that. It's spam. The rest of us don't want it either! nevertheless, how can i get rid of

RE: english text only?

2002-03-19 Thread Ryan Speed
Siegerman Sent: March 19, 2002 10:38 AM To: cvsInfo Subject: Re: english text only? On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 07:15:12PM +0100, Leif Hanack wrote: i'm new to this mailing-list and i'm wondering myself why i receive mails with strange characters in it. i guess it is japanese or stuff like

RE: english text only?

2002-03-19 Thread Daniels, David
Agreed. We can't seem to get the list managers to take action, though. -Original Message- From: Ryan Speed [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 12:51 PM To: 'cvsInfo' Subject: RE: english text only? It seems to be a trend lately, I'm on a few lists that get spammed

Re: english text only?

2002-03-19 Thread Kenneth Loafman
be to disallow mail from people who aren't subscribed to the list. ryan -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Eric Siegerman Sent: March 19, 2002 10:38 AM To: cvsInfo Subject: Re: english text only? On Tue, Mar 19, 2002

RE: english text only?

2002-03-19 Thread Vishal Jain
to clear up this mess. Vishal Jain ILX Systems NY -Original Message- From: Daniels, David [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 1:59 PM To: 'Ryan Speed'; 'cvsInfo' Subject: RE: english text only? Agreed. We can't seem to get the list managers to take action, though

RE: english text only?

2002-03-19 Thread Ryan Speed
: Vishal Jain [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: March 19, 2002 11:22 AM To: 'Daniels, David'; 'Ryan Speed'; 'cvsInfo' Subject: RE: english text only? Guys, how do we control who is subscribed? Like I am subscriber I can start putting spam! Anyone can subscribe to our list, so disallowing from

RE: english text only?

2002-03-19 Thread vvor
maybe the list managers ARE the spammers. vora -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Ryan Speed Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 2:26 PM To: 'cvsInfo' Subject: RE: english text only? I'm willing to take my chances, I don't know of any

Re: english text only?

2002-03-19 Thread Mark A. Flacy
List? What list? I'm reading this in the newsgroup gnu.cvs.help. ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs

Re: english text only?

2002-03-19 Thread Tom Plunket
Daniels, David wrote: Agreed. We can't seem to get the list managers to take action, though. It would make the Usenet interface tough to handle, then... -tom! ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]