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Okay, are the people running this mailing list completely asleep at
the wheel, or what? This is now my third posting in four days -- one
would expect that by now someone would have noticed. Hello? Anyone
home??? Messages like the attached would be impossible except for the
fact that somehow an announce mailing list has been left OPEN. Please
fix it already.

Perry

From: "Envoyer" <copyof <at> amidatrust.com>
Subject: [Sbcl-announce] Research Group Test Suite
To: sbcl-announce <at> lists.sourceforge.net
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 17:06:25 +0100                                           

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William Harold Newman | 13 Dec 19:05

The sbcl-announce list is now 100% human-moderated. (Re: spam)

first, a proper announcement:

I have tweaked the list configuration to enable what Mailman calls
"emergency moderation": all postings should be held until I surf to
the admin URL, give the admin password, and click radiobuttons to
determine their fate. This seems a very practical solution for such a
low-traffic list, and assuming that it works as documented, it should
reliably stop spam on sbcl-announce, which should return to being a
SBCL announcements list, probably mostly monthly release announcements
as before.

then, some words of explanation and discussion:

On Wed, Dec 13, 2006 at 11:28:36AM -0500, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> Okay, are the people running this mailing list completely asleep at
> the wheel, or what? This is now my third posting in four days -- one
> would expect that by now someone would have noticed. Hello? Anyone
> home??? Messages like the attached would be impossible except for the
> fact that somehow an announce mailing list has been left OPEN. Please
> fix it already.

The extra days of sbcl-announce spam are my fault. It's not plural
people, it's me; I'm the only list admin, and you're quite right that
I haven't paid much attention.

As many people will have already noticed, these days with or without
scolding, even with repeated punctuation marks, I find I don't have
much energy for administrative stuff in general, or for various SBCL
stuff that I used to do quite a lot of. Socially SBCL is not exactly
thankless work, but neither is the social feedback of the sort that

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