Re: Dodgy Looking Subscribers to List.

[Ralph Corderoy]

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.