[NCSG-EC] Old mailing list joining requests

[Tapani Tarvainen]

On Tue, Jan 03, 2023 at 05:14:08PM +0100, Johan Helsingius via NCSG-EC (ncsg-ec at lists.ncsg.is) wrote:
> 
> Happy New Year to all of you!
> 
> Mid-December we managed to get the mail alias chair at ncsg.is changed
> to forward to me. Ever since, I keep getting reminders about hundreds
> of pending mailing list moderator requests waiting for approval. Almost
> all are requests to join our mailing lists (with an occasional attempt
> to post by a non-member). The oldest are from March 2021, the newest October
> 2021.
> 
> Many of the lists aren't active any more.
> 
> My suggestion is to simply discard them, as they are rather old. What
> do you think?

Agreed. I'd bet they're 99% or more just spam, and nothing that
old is likely to be relevant anyway.

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Tapani Tarvainen