Re: [META] List owner?

[Alexandre Duret-Lutz]

On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 10:29:57AM +0000, Lars Hecking wrote:
>
>  Does anyone here know the person behind autoconf-owner? I have sent email
>  to autoconf-owner (and probably automake-owner, too) a number of times and
>  never received a reply.

Almost all gnu lists are owned by gnulists-ownrr, an alias that nobody
read.  (The associated mailbox is currently 1.6GB large, wow!)

>  The amount of spam coming from these two lists is appalling, and in fact
>  accounted for more than 50% of all spam that made it to my inbox during
>  the past holiday period. I'm wondering whether the list owners will take
>  any action - header analysis shows that a lot of these mails are being
>  received by the list server (or frontend) from dynamic ips and dialups.
>  I cannot understand why these are not getting blocked in the first place.

Anyway it's not something to do on a per-list basis.  The spam
filtering setup of gnu.org can be discussed on the spam-discuss list.

http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/spam-discuss/