[cap-talk] cap-talk infrastructure problem?

[Jed at Webstart]

At 01:26 PM 12/6/2006, Jonathan S. Shapiro wrote:
>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.

Thanks Jonathan.  I'll look into the address that I sent those
messages from.  I am receiving the distribution to my home
address and I thought I had already sent a couple of messages
to the list from home, but this is a relatively recent change, so
I've likely messed something up.

>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".

I know this problem.

>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.

Heh.  I've been watching some of that discussion going by on the
e-lang list.

On the other hand switching to a wiki has a very different 'feel' to it.
More along the lines of shared projects than like an add-on blog.
Maybe I'm just used to the email approach.  In our organization we
use wikis for quite a different purpose.  It will be interesting to
see how that change works out with e-lang.

--Jed http://www.webstart.com/jed/