Comments on: Mailing lists continue to give me headaches.

By: Головомозгий дешифратор

Головомозгий дешифратор — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 16:39:14 +0000

Полностью согласна!

By: Akktri

Akktri — Wed, 28 May 2008 01:21:35 +0000

I suspect this is because there is a kabal of e-mail servers, and if you're creating new competition, they'll work extra hard to make sure your address isn't recognized by the system. They're hoping that you'll eventually give up and use one of their servers, like Yahoo, Google, etc.
You could always e-mail hotmail and some of them and ask them for their cooperation, though.

By: Robin Battey

Robin Battey — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 00:00:28 +0000

Thanks. I'm kind of embarrassed I didn't redact it myself.

By: Zorba

Zorba — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 23:58:55 +0000

Naturally. Good ol' internet.

I edited out the email address, that might at least slow down the future flood. (I could put it back if you wanted.)

By: Robin Battey

Robin Battey — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 23:52:48 +0000

Ironically, the spambots have found the email address I posted above, and I get lots of spam at that address as a result. Ah, the internets…

By: Zorba

Zorba — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 21:40:39 +0000

Since posting this I've converted to Mailman, and at this point gmail doesn't flag it as spam. I suspect I just need a bunch of people on the standard mail services to sign up and unflag-as-spam, but almost nobody signs up with hotmail, so that'll probably take a while.

If you unflagged it as spam, it's appreciated. :)

By: Stephen

Stephen — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 21:35:00 +0000

I tried it with my hotmail account it it gets flagged spam as well.

I know majordomo as a mailing list engine does not get relegated to spam to often but i do not know how user freindly they are currently ( they have been a rather big pain in the past, but there are some really nice config tools out to alter that)

By: Zorba

Zorba — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 10:50:41 +0000

Fair enough. I think Robin's just a little oversensitive to spam, at least in this case :)

It wouldn't surprise me if it got spambucketed by Yahoo also, though. I just haven't checked yet.

By: Giodude

Giodude — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 10:49:07 +0000

Oh, heh.. I guess I wasn't reading it right, my mistake :P... anyways if I were being paid by yahoo, my comment would have been more like this, " yahoo's e-mail service is #1, it's totally awesome, it's like the best in the world and doesn't disappoint one bit." and it would have followed with tons of links to yahoo services. But I don't do crap like that. But I guess from reading it, it does sound like spam.

By: Zorba

Zorba — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 03:22:10 +0000

Curiously, while I got a whole ton of spam before I actually set up the real devlog here, I haven't gotten any for quite a while. That said, I have akismet installed and it caught virtually everything for quite a while, before it stopped having anything it needed to catch. Looking it over, the last spam comment is from October 26, which - in retrospect - isn't actually even spam (I've gone and unmarked it as such.) Last actual spam is October 22, and there's only two spam comments in the last 15 days. I'm not convince Giodude's comment is spam, I think he's just confused as to what I'm asking. Giodude, I'm not concerned about my own email since I don't even use gmail. I'm concerned about other people's email.