From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
Subject: Let's shut down bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2005 10:16:25 +0000 (GMT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.96.1051211091856.238A-100000@acm.acm> (raw)
Hi, Emacs!
Let's just shut down bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org. You think I'm joking?
I actually receive this mailing list via NNTP on gnu.emacs.bug, by the
way. I've just been through this newsgroup clearing out spam, and it is
truly revolting. Since 23rd November, when I last cleared out the group,
I have downloaded 38 decent posts and 302 spams.
In years past, I actually used gnu.emacs.bug a fair amount to report bugs
and submit feature requests. If I were just getting into Emacs now, I
doubt I'd bother, given the state of this newsgroup.
gnu.emacs.bug is supposedly a moderated newsgroup. That so much spam
spews forth from it makes the FSF look like a mass of incompetent idiots.
Sadly, gnu.emacs.help is rapidly going the same way. By way of contrast,
the non-gnu newsgroup comp.emacs is clean indeed - Since 23rd November, I
haven't downloaded any spam at all there, though it does get the odd
slice of it.
In September, I sent an email to postmaster@gnu.org offering to do manual
moderation of help-gnu-emacs. After all, sifting out ~20 spams per day
is not that onerous a task, and seeing how I'm doing it privately anyhow,
why not let everybody get the benefit? I didn't get a reply.
--
Alan Mackenzie (Munich, Germany)
next reply other threads:[~2005-12-11 10:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-12-11 10:16 Alan Mackenzie [this message]
2005-12-11 22:57 ` Let's shut down bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Richard M. Stallman
2005-12-11 23:49 ` Andreas Schwab
2005-12-12 5:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-12-12 8:55 ` Ralf Angeli
2005-12-12 20:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-12-12 21:33 ` Ralf Angeli
2005-12-13 3:14 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-12-12 9:10 ` Alan Mackenzie
2005-12-12 18:49 ` Ken Raeburn
2005-12-12 22:42 ` Reiner Steib
2005-12-12 22:18 ` Xavier Maillard
2005-12-13 6:57 ` Ken Raeburn
2005-12-13 18:48 ` Alan Mackenzie
2005-12-12 14:49 ` Sam Steingold
2005-12-12 15:41 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-12-12 22:18 ` Xavier Maillard
2005-12-12 22:52 ` Reiner Steib
2005-12-13 6:07 ` Bill Wohler
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