Re: lynx-dev HEADS UP! not just spam, now viruses

[David Balazic]

Thomas Dickey  wrote :
> On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 11:04:21PM -0300, Fr?d?ric L. W. Meunier wrote:
> > We discussed about the move to Savannah a year ago.
> > 
> > http://www.flora.org/lynx-dev/html/month022002/msg00068.html
> > 
> > I think we could at least host the mailing-list there. I'm
> > willing to be one of the moderators (I'm of the smartmontools
> > mailing-lists hosted at SourceForge.net and of my cable modem
> > service user group at FreeLists.org).
> > 
> > Since Bob Izenberg (one of lynx-dev moderators) created (I
> > didn't know) the project at Savannah at the time (do a search
> > for Savannah lynx on Google), I think there'd be no problem to
> > ask him to move all lynx-dev subscribers, and he could also
> > redirect all e-mails for a time (maybe a year or until 2.8.5 is
> > released), which would be moderated. After that he could just
> > send back an e-mail about the move to Savannah.
> 
> I'd like to get 2.8.5 out in the next few months...
> 
> > I also think someone from Savannah may be able to index all
> > FLORA archives.
> 
> ( without the spam? ;-)
>  
> > I'm not considering SourceForge.net since they now put
> > commercial junk on all e-mails. And I'm pretty sure Savannah
> > will stay.
> > 
> > BTW, you wrote at
> > http://www.flora.org/lynx-dev/html/month062002/msg00053.html
> > 
> > "and just now, visiting savannah, I don't see any sign of a
> > mailing list archive."
> > 
> > Sure, there are none for lynx.
> > 
> > All are at http://mail.nongnu.org/archive/html/
> > 
> > And I don't think subscribers-only is the way to go.
> 
> well, the real issue is spam in the archives

I noticed an interesting solution on another mail list for this
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