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I just resurrected the Boston Warren mailing list. Took me long enough. It is for Boston-centric discussion of games by Looney Labs and other companies.

It uses the most excellent Mailman list management software now, so you can do all subscription, archive perusal, and other activities over the web, thus: http://jmac.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/boston-warren.

If you were subscribed to this list in the past, you probably already received email notification of your re-subscription. If you didn't, or you'd like to join this list for the first time, just visit that webpage.

(Sigh, just noticed that the archive link 404s. Will fix RSN.)

Inetersting post from Brian McNett seen on the Perl Mac OS X mailing list, after someone's challenge-response program started yelling at everyone who sent mail to that list...

This has happened to me as well. Challenge - Response is not good for mailing lists like this one, or indeed at all.

As someone who works in the anti-spam field, I can tell you up front that C/R is frowned upon at all levels as bad and wrong. Several key C/R vendors are in fact spammers, and the leader in the C/R field is a lawsuit-happy outfit which is attempting to kill off all its competition. All C/R systems work by intercepting your mail, and one even requires you give them your POP3 passwords to do it.

See: http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/archives/000389.html
Also: http://tardigrade.net/challengeresponse.html
and: http://static.samspade.org/spamarrest.html

Both SpamArrest, and MailBlocks collect the email addresses from responses to challenges and reserve the right to market to them in their privacy policies. SpamArrest has been widely criticized as spammers for having done so. For the record, there is no privacy policy anywhere to be seen on the Max Strength Software websites. They are not required to have one, but because they don't they can do anything with the information you give them (including your email address), and you have no recourse. Would you trust anyone like that?

To anyone out there using C/R, please stop. Please?

One of my housemates just chewed me out for forwarding a s_______ post to another list, something I wouldn't have done had I known the second list was public (if obscure), with a world-readable archive. Gah. Said housemate fortunately controls said list and is now grumblingly massaging said archive to make said address go away.

The point is that he's not an active member of s_______ or any of its attached communities by any stretch, but he does help police it, and his lack of interest in the subject matter does not dull his hair-trigger BOFH senses.

So, just to remind you that you're in good hands, if you're on that list. The end.

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