[cap-talk] cap-talk infrastructure problem?

[Jonathan S. Shapiro]

On Wed, 2006-12-06 at 13:14 -0800, Jed Donnelley wrote:
> cap-talk,
> 
> Just an infrastructure note.  This morning I sent some 6 messages to 
> the cap-talk list that I have yet to see forwarded or archived.  I'm 
> not sure what is going on there.

The most likely explanation is that you sent the emails from an email
address that is not subscribed. Messages sent from unsubscribed
addresses are *silently* dropped without notice of any kind.

This is a regrettably necessary anti-spam measure. Long ago, I had
mailman configured to refer those messages for approval, but when the
spam bounces hit 1000 per day I gave up.

The only alternative is to bounce them back to the sender. The problem
is that most of the reply addresses are spam (therefore invalid) and so
this results in thousands of messages to me as administrator that "xx
email address is not responding".

The right solution to this is going to be moving to a wiki. We need to
set one up for The EROS Group anyway, and I was going to raise the
possibility next week. I didn't want to say anything until our wiki
evaluation process was completed, because asking people what wiki they
like is about as productive as asking them why everybody doesn't just
program in FORTH like Real Programmers do.
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Jonathan S. Shapiro, Ph.D.
Managing Director
The EROS Group, LLC
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