Proposal: new "plug-offtopic" email list [ linux related to phpBB2 ]

[Technomage-hawke]

On Thursday 14 February 2008 06:19, Shawn Badger wrote:
> Other than the emails about politics which could be considered spam at
> least by me, I can't remember the last time I saw spam on the plug mailing
> list. Maybe it is just me though.
>
>

I wasn't specifically complaining about *this* list. There are a lot of other 
lists that I have been seeing bounces from lately (and none of them I am 
subscribed to). it seems my e-mail got harvested and someone has been using 
it as a "return envelope" address.

unfortunately, just about all listserv software bounces back to the given 
return address.

it seems that those folks that manage listserv's have never bothered with any 
kind of spam administration (spamd and others). I have contacted several of 
the admins on some of these lists and been told that they let the package 
deal with spam (IOW, it bounces back to the "victim" <in this case ME> and 
said victim has to deal with the mess.).

now, politics that has relevance to linux or freedom of choice (in your use of 
OS) is never off topic (IMHO). the healthcare debacle we just went through 
wasn't specifically on topic, but it did provide a barometer of who was alive 
on this list <evil grin>.

anyway. thats my beef with listserv admins who don't pay attention or do their 
jobs (and its one of the reasons I have been seeing 400 "backscatter spams" a 
day for the last week!).

TMH