On Fri, Sep 01, 2006 at 10:18:35PM +0200, Bram Moolenaar wrote: > > > > > Apparently the sorbs blacklist mechanism is still being used, causing > > > > > trouble for some people. I have asked the mail server maintainer to > > > > > remove sorbs a few times now... > > > > > > > > Twice recently, sorbs has bounced my mails to the list because some > > > > server between my ISP and the vim-dev list is on its blacklist. > > > > > > > > Do you have any plans to move the vim mailing lists to a new server, > > > > where you (or someone more responsive) has administrative control? > > > > > > The plan was to move the maillists to the server that is now already the > > > Vim mail server. And the one causing this blacklist trouble... > > > > > > There is no progress in moving the maillists. I suppose it's time to > > > find a better place for the Vim mail server. Instead of a server that > > > just happens to be available and run by someone who doesn't always > > > respond, or some big and anonymous server park like Yahoo, I think we > > > should look for a small site that does have 24 hour support. > > > > How about the sourceforge mailing lists? I know sourceforge has had > > numerous failures in the past. But I think their mailing lists might be > > OK. > > Features missing (at least): > - When someone is not subscribed the message should bounce, not sent to > the maillist owner. (I have to manually remove spam stuff from the > a-a-p lists regularly). > - Messages with just HTML, executable attachments etc. should be > bounced. These rules must be configurable. > - Loading all the old messages into the archive, so that searches find > them.
Bram, I just set up a new mailing list on SF. I think the above features are there on the version of mailman they just installed. Gautam -- 'Fortissimoe' -- The musical moment produced when someone serially slaps the faces of the first violin section.
