Re: FontForge Mailing List Switch

Hi Nathan,

On June 10, 2017 12:16:54 AM Nathan Willis wrote:
> Well, it seems that someone at SourceForge has pulled the "Annoy our
> customers" lever again. (If you haven't gotten a 'please confirm again
> that you want this mailing list or we'll automatically unsubscribe you'
> email, yet, it's coming!)

Just received it 15 minutes after your message.


> Maybe that means it's time to revisit this topic?

Sometimes mailinglists need to do maintenance and prune-off the email 
addresses that are simply sending unread messages to the junk-folder.
If the message isn't read, there is little point in sending the email.
From the mailing list point of view, it saves bytes in transmission, 
computer time, electricity, etc, and therefore saves money.
I'd rather see the occassional confirmation on a free-to-use mailinglist 
that does a pretty good job in keeping noise/spam to a minimum.
I've seen some mailing lists rendered useless due to the amount of spam 
going through them if/when the spammers figure-out a way to automate their 
logins and spamming.

There are also other forces at play too, for example, in Canada, the anti-
spam laws are making this sort of request "a good thing" where you need 
confirmation that you want-in, and wish to remain-in, which is a better 
solution than earlier "auto-opt-in" and attempts to opt-out are ignored.
http://crtc.gc.ca/eng/internet/anti.htm
It doesn't kill spamming, but it is an improvement.

If we moved to another list, we might see it there too, therefore you'd get 
zero gain here, and minus gain (years of fontforge archive).

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