> > What I might do is split the lists: > > > > sensors-devel@ > > sensors-users@ > > Is that really needed? The traffic here is quite low, splitting the > lists doesn't seem to make much sense. I agree with Greg, I'm not sure it's necessary. Most (if not all) subscribers are developers, so we don't have to hide from ourselves (if I'm clear). > Banning HTML mail takes care of 99% of the spam that tries to get > through to the linux-usb-* mailing lists. Sure, some of it slips > through, but I never notice it, as my local spam filters pick them up > usually :) Sounds great. In this case, we should explicitly mention on the web page that HTML mail will be rejected, or it's unfair to human posters. I know nice people don't use HTML mail anyway (I am a nice guy! yeah! ;)) but we shouldn't be too integrist with people that are just different. Another thing I have been suggesting for years now (OK, it's exagerated, say months) is to keep a single address for the mailing list. Having lm78@ *and* sensors@ doesn't double the number of interesting e-mails we receive, but it actually doubles the amount of spam. > You might want to try that, it's a good first step, which also keeps > the lists open for non-subscribers to post to (which is a good thing, > considering that you have to ask someone before being able to join > this list, which I think is a bit strange...) Not that strange. Or, at least, not a problem IMHO. Only very few people need to be there, and that's how we manage to keep the number of subscribers low. Remember it isn't a "real" mailing list. Phil is handling it by himself. We have been having severe issues with bouncing mails some months ago, spam is a regular question also. So, I understand that Phil doesn't want to have too many subscribers to handle on the list. Third possibility would be to moderate the posts for unsubscribed users. Drawback is that a human intervention is needed, which means more work for Phil (or someone else) and delayed answers since Phil (or anyone else) is a busy man. We all are rather busy, isn't it? (And do you know why? Because we are nice people. (TM)) This may also be technically impossible due to the way our mailing list is handled. But that's just an idea after all. OK, that was just some morling thoughts. Comments welcome, I got to go now. -- Jean Delvare http://www.ensicaen.ismra.fr/~delvare/
