On 10/14/26 2:06 AM, Schimon via Standards wrote:
With respect, I do not realize why the moderators of this mailing-list allow these unwanted messages of "Aluminum Cable Market Enables Power Transmission".
There is essentially one moderator for all the mailing lists: me. I don't intentionally "allow" spam messages through, because I don't moderate all messages manually - that would be a ridiculous policy. We already require subscriptions to the list in order to post, but we could further change the policy to be "confirm then moderate" so that the list moderator needs to manually approve all subscriptions. But that could introduce unwanted side-effects and delays, because how does the list moderator know which email addresses are nice people who want to discuss technical issues, and which are spammers? We receive spam messages only rarely (perhaps a few times a year?), and when they do appear I immediately ban the sender so that they will not send multiple messages. Spam is simply a price we pay for online communications, and sometimes we all need to simply hit "delete" on an unwanted message.
The most useful mailing-list "general" was closed for no proper reason; then, mailing-list "jdev" was closed for an improper reason; now, unwanted messages are allowed to be sent to the only mailing-list left.
We - *I*- shut down the jdev and juser lists because they were basically unused and because we have long been planning to disable all email functionality at the jabber.org domain (which is not an XSF domain anyway).
Is there an intention to further discourage more people from utilizing Jabber/XMPP, and foisting them into centralized messaging and publishing platforms?
Where I am from, if a professional is overwhelmed by tasks (that is, accepts too much of clients), then it amounts to conflict-of-interest; therefore, I advise to unqualified members, who can not handle their responsibilities, to leave XSF; otherwise, I would advise to reorganize XSF.
These statements are not worthy of further discussion. Peter