Re: Con artists on the pari-list/Off topic

[Leonhard Möhring <lmoehri@gwdg.de>]

to cite djb:

At 16:50 22.09.2002 +0000, djb wrote:
> Karim BELABAS writes:
> > And the owner does not read the lists...
>
> I catch up on the lists every now and then, but that's beside the point.
> There are more than 11000 subscribers to my mailing lists; there have
> been more than 13000 subscription changes in the past year. If I had to
> deal with even a small fraction of those changes manually, I wouldn't
> run the lists in the first place.
>
> ---D. J. Bernstein, Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics,
> Statistics, and Computer Science, University of Illinois at Chicago

but:
I wouldn't rate this as completely off-topic, since it might be
useful to find out sthing about the actual change which is wanted
by the majority of the subscribers.

Imho the Spam/Virus propagation here is so obvious that it is somehow
far from being an actual threat, even for Dos/Windows users which
will probably be a minority here.

And agreeing to permanent public archiving? isn't this taken for granted
anyhow? After all the public archives date at least to 1999. Seems close
to eternity ;)

cheers,
Leonhard