It's possible to have ones cake and eat it too in this regard. Many of the available options in web form software allow for emailing of a periodic digest.
Sam On Tue, Jul 30, 2019, 12:36 PM Jasse Jansson <[email protected]> wrote: > Well, personally I haven't been using DFly the last few years, but I do > like to get updates from this mail-list. > Web-based forums only works for those who checks it at least twice a > week, the rest of us gets out of the loop really fast. > Please keep the "users" maillist as a occasionally newsfeed for those of > us that have old Fords to renovate.. > > > On 2019-07-29 19:10, Constantine A. Murenin wrote: > > On Mon, 29 Jul 2019 at 10:27, Matthew Dillon <[email protected] > > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > > > The mailing list software has been less than stellar, but the > > bigger problem is in areas that we have very little control over. > > We have no control over other people's spam filters, and the > > mailing list software itself has to deal with a constant influx of > > spam (which is why you have to be subscribed, now). It is almost > > impossible to manage it any other way. Nearly all of the internet > > has moved on to WWW based forum-like mechanisms because they are a > > whole lot easier to manage. We're going to have to as well. > > > > I feel that we do not have a choice here. Privately-run mail > > systems, in general, are almost dead due to the spam load. I have > > to forward my own personal domain email through GMail just to be > > able to continue using it and my GMail spam mailbox consistently > > contains more than 3000 spams in it (30-day expiration, so ... > > 100+ spams per day). And that doesn't count the ones Google > > auto-deletes immediately or the ones my smtp server discards. > > I've tried everything possible to keep my personal domain and > > dragonfly's domain email usable but its an impossible task. > > > > -Matt > > > > > > Yes, but it works on OpenBSD.org — the confirmation emails do the > > trick, and are a much better option than simply discarding emails from > > non-subscribers. Greylisting through PF spamd is also an option. > > Personally, I do passive fingerprinting based on OS in my PF(4) spamd > > setup, which means that most of my mail isn't even subject to > > greylisting (e.g., Linux and BSD go directly to the real SMTP daemon, > > whereas all the botnets have to go through spamd first). Another > > option is to use greytrapping, including through a secondary > > low-priority MX IP address. > > > > Yes, I agree; the mailing list software may be less than stellar, but > > it's still better than any forum software I've ever encountered. If > > folks want forum-like functionality, there's already Reddit and > > Lobsters available as options. (Plus, forum software is not exactly > > immune from spam, either.) > > > > C. > >
