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

english text only?

2002-03-20 Thread jrd
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 in spam, and just too bloody much of

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

english text only?

2002-03-19 Thread Leif Hanack
hi, 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. nevertheless, how can i get rid of it? i think it makes sence two split the groups if a multilingual support is desired! otherwise i and surly a

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]

RE:'Ryan Speed' english text only?

2002-03-19 Thread EXT-Corcoran, David
How bout finding another listserver that supports spam filtering? -Original Message- From: Vishal Jain [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 11:22 AM To: 'Daniels, David'; 'Ryan Speed'; 'cvsInfo' Subject: RE: english text only? Guys, how do we control who