I wouldn't mind moving to a new list. -- Sent from Discordia using Gnus for Emacs. Email: r.d.t.prater@xxxxxxxxx Long days and pleasant nights! Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > It's not true that Red Hat did what they could do as quickly as they > could do it. The spam problem went on for months before some of us > finally started to make an issue of it. Even then it tooke a couple of > weeks before anything was done. Secondly, they should have removed the > spammer from the list instead of changing the list settings. I got > all kinds of pushback on my assertion that it was clearly a spam bot > subscribed to the list. But, of course, that's been proven to have > been true. I am sure now I'll get pushback on my assertion that you > can figure out who the spammer was. Heck, it might be as easy as > checking the list of subscribers. > > > Like I said when this first came up, I vote for taking it to > iavit.org. I feel we all have a vested interested in promoting IAVIT. > I am the Presidet of IAVIT but I'm just trying to provide a service > for the blind community as a whole. > > > -- John Heim > > > > > > > > On 04/24/2017 06:14 AM, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: >> Tony, >> First of all, as far as I've been able to deduce over the years, >> everyone *cares* about accessibility. The problem is that no one >> *knows how* to best address any issues with it. Red Hat certainly >> does care. If they didn't care, they wouldn't ship Orca, or they >> wouldn't implement the alt+super+s shortcut to turn on Orca in >> GNOME. Defaults you say, maybe. But still, if they didn't care, why >> would they do so much work to get their installer working with Orca? >> I don't think all that work was an accident. >> >> With regard to yet another list, it's not necessary at all. We do >> still have this list, and we can just put our names into our >> messages. Kyle here .... In any case, if we don't want that, the FSF >> does have an accessibility list as well. >> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/accessibility >> No sense making yet another Linux/free software accessibility list. >> Either use this one, that one or both. In any case, we can't be >> blaming Red Hat for the current state of this list. They did what >> they could do as quickly as they could do it. Instead, if there is >> any blame to throw around, we should be blaming the spammers that >> got us here. >> ~Kyle >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Blinux-list mailing list >> Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx >> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > > _______________________________________________ > Blinux-list mailing list > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list