Spam and mailing lists

[brk]

This whole discussion has shown why linux has such a hard time  
winning serious market-share.

The linux community is made up of militias, when what it needs is an  
army.  People are arguing over subject-line formatting and MTA's for  
a mailing list that is lucky to get a half-dozen messages per day on  
average.

Just pick an MTA and be done with it, as long as the list mail gets  
through 95% of the subscriber base probably doesn't care.  For the  
processing power this list takes I could run it off of a PIC-based  
webserver and an MLM written in LOGO.

Do whatever you want with the subject line, you'll never please  
everyone anyway.  Most lists still use subject-line text insertion,  
it's not the anti-christ of email, and it's not a requirement for  
filtering in most cases either.

Sometimes the most important job of a list admin is simple to make  
decisions silently and gracefully.

Yeah, I'm sure I'll get flamed.  Oh well, maybe it'll push our daily  
email average up to 8.