1 Mar
2007
1 Mar
'07
12:41 p.m.
Marc-Olivier Barre wrote:
Hi everyone,
As I said yesterday when I said the migration to linuxaudio.org was
postponed till 1st April, there are still a few issues asking for
comments.
It has been suggested by a few people(Ivica Ico Bukvic, Jan Weil) that
the email addresses linux-audio-xxxxx(a)linuxaudio.org was kind of
redundant. The following suggestions were made :
� just switch the names to announce(a)linuxaudio.org,
dev(a)linuxaudio.org, and user(a)linuxaudio.org.
� Make aliases : linux-audio-dev(a)linuxaudio.org -> dev(a)linuxaudio.org
To this Leonard Ritter replied that this could lead to more spam.
he might be right. a random bot is more likely to spam
user(a)linuxaudio.org than linux-audio-user@...
a compromise woud be la-user, la-dev , la-ann -
or user-ml@.. (mailing-list), etc. (but that's not catchy enough)
I'd suggest to alias the other way round:
if dev(a)linuxaudio.org is Spammed, you can announce and drop this feature
again while everyone with "linux-audio-dev(a)linuxaudio.org" in their
address book won't ever notice.
in short term dev@.. will have less SPAM than linux-audio-dev, and in
the long-run SpamAssassin will mark dup.-postings in blacklists..
OTOH; with dev@lao - we'd benefit from a shorter subject! [la-dev]
compared to [linux-audio-dev] - there are usually < 50 chars for subject
in a 80x24 terminal :) - for email shortcuts there is an addressbook and
personally I use "LAD" as nick for it.
robin