16 Sep
2018
16 Sep
'18
3:48 a.m.
On Sat, 15 Sep 2018 03:23:05 -0500 John Newman <jnn@synfin.org> wrote:
On September 14, 2018 4:28:59 PM CDT, Greg Newby <gbnewby@pglaf.org> wrote:
The big archive of pre-2016 postings that was shared last month from was dominated by spam, it seems. - Greg
It's probably a bad idea to turn this feature on - enabling the bounces is sufficient, IMO.
However, if people really want it I would say turn it on, and watch minds change when it introduces little (almost nothing) to the discussion, but we start seeing spam out the ass.
it seems rather pointless to me. People who are not subscribed are not even reading the list - why should they be able to post? And yeah the archives from the 2000s are mostly spam. 90% spam. Or maybe more.