[cmucl-imp] CMUCL mailing list changes

Raymond Toy toy.raymond at gmail.com
Sat Jul 20 23:31:04 UTC 2013


On 7/20/13 1:45 PM, Martin Cracauer wrote:
> Folks.
>
> I reactivated the CMUCL list after a wave of spam took down the
> machine doing @cons.org (as opposed to @cmucl.cons.org) with heavy
> disk I/O caused by mismatching spamfilters between the @cons.org
> forwarder and the ML software on @cmucl.cons.org
>
> Unless this causes great concern I would like to make
> @cmucl.cons.org 
> The only supported bunch of addresses and not support @cons.org
> anymore.  The forwarding means I tunnel some of my own spamfilters.

I couldn't quite parse this last paragraph.  Does this mean that cmucl
mailing lists @cons.org will no longer exist and all mail should go to
@cmucl.cons.org?  If so, do existing list members need to do anything to
be subscribed?
>
> If that's all right, whoever does the webpages would please need to
> adjust http://www.cons.org/cmucl/support.html
>
> However, *please* hide this in a gif or some javascript because the
> bombardment of the old addresses is just staggering and it comes from
> all those places on the web that have no or naive obfuscation.

I'll adjust that as soon as I can and try to hide it.  Sorry for
producing so much spam.

Ray



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