[NCSG-EC] Old mailing list joining requests

[Tapani Tarvainen]

On Wed, Jan 04, 2023 at 11:08:14AM -0600, Caleb Olumuyiwa Ogundele (muyiwacaleb at gmail.com) wrote:
> 
> I guess i did not make my explanation clear earlier, so let me explain
> below.
> 
> 1. Julf asked wrote and I quote "Many of the lists aren't active anymore.
> My suggestion is to simply discard them, as they are rather old. What do
> you think?"

Ah. I interpreted this that he only wants to discard the pending
subscription requests and non-member messages, not the lists
themselves. Perhaps Julf could clarify?

> 2.  What I suggested was that since this email triggers subscription
> requests from members and non-members, why not deactivate (which I think
> was what everyone agreed to including your kind suggestion as well.) Then I
> went further to mention that it will be nice to ARCHIVE them while
> deactivation not to accept subscription requests has been implemented.

I think the lists have already been changed so that the confirmation
subscription method has been disabled (that's what spammers use to
send backscatter spam), given that there have been no new such
recently (was it since October 2021).

So most if not all of those moderation requests pestering Julf now are
really leftovers from the time when backscatter spam worked.

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Tapani Tarvainen