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Re: Administrivia
>I'm asking again and again: how come that people on other mailing
>lists can live perfectly with closed-post mailing lists, and you,
>the mailing list dealing with Linux, the operating system for the
>clever hackers, can't? Just explain it to me, will you?
imho, this one is simple: every time someone spammed the list, 2-5
volunteers flamed the insulation off the spammers in memorable fireworks
(ccd to the list). After a while it got around that it's not kosher to
spam linux-il. They are afraid, very afraid ;) Ah yes, and someone was
running a blacklist I think ?
Peter