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Re: Dodgy Looking Subscribers to List.
From: |
Ralph Corderoy |
Subject: |
Re: Dodgy Looking Subscribers to List. |
Date: |
Sat, 12 Sep 2020 14:56:31 +0100 |
Hello Bob,
> > The nmh-workers@nongnu.org list recently gained three subscribers in
> > a short time.
> >
> > Joe Arguello <dirteboi14@gmail.com>
> > reg@pelatihanwirausaha.com
> > mailbox@open.my.id
> >
> > Google knew little about them and none of them have replied after a
> > few days so I unsubscribed them.
>
> Whatever. But help me to understand the reasoning here. What is your
> goal?
In the same way the Mailman admin aren't keen on having spam emails pile
up, I thought they may not appreciate subscriptions from one address to
many lists, upping the count of emails sent, when it's probable the
subscriber is a non-declared bot. If that was true, but no automatic
monitoring is in place, then I thought pointing out some recent
subscribers who may have subscribed to other lists too might be helpful.
> Is your goal to keep the subscribers to only those that you know are
> active participants?
No, lurkers are welcome. It's a low-volume list and we can have a
lurker who has been silent for years suddenly post, causing me to clear
their moderated flag. The software dates to the 1970s. Even one of its
authors is still subscribed. :-)
> Note that I see at least a few public email archives in the subscriber
> list. Which means that anyone could be reading the list from the
> public email archives.
Yes, not a problem. Any email address which reaches another is
‘public’.
> BTW I see Joe Arguello arguellojoe530@gmail.com in the list too.
Thanks, axed.
> And we don't try to monitor subscriptions for them in any way.
Fair enough.
--
Cheers, Ralph.