Re: [Feedback request] Decommissioning of unused mailing lists (>5yrs no postings)

Hi

I can see the rationale about the proposed decommissioning (I see a few ml
of mine in the list).

Maybe it'd be a good time to review the lists that get associated with a
project too?  It used to be that project-help, project-devel and
project-announce were pretty much always there.  I see many -devel in the
list; but maybe these are for "stable" (which may also mean "stable as a
corpse" :) ) projects which do not get much development these days?

Marco


On Thu, Jul 13, 2023 at 1:24 PM Erik Huelsmann <[email protected]> wrote:

> All,
>
>
> As part of the migration from Mailman2 to Mailman3, I have checked which
> lists are actively used. The outcome allows for some rigorous cleanup.
>
> Out of 236 mailing lists, 180 have not had a mail added to their archives *over
> the last 5 years(!)*. My proposal is to decommission these mailing lists,
> meaning that only the archives will be migrated to Mailman3. These mailing
> lists can always be re-instated at a later time.
>
> Rationale for this clean-up is that some owners of the mailing lists have
> fallen out of contact, causing additional work to fall on the shoulders of
> the site maintainers: mailing lists require moderation of non-member posts,
> where those moderation requests which can't be delivered to the list owner,
> are sent to the site admins. Additionally, unused mailing lists may accrue
> spam mail in their archives, lowering the value of the archive.
> (Temporarily) Closing mailing lists can prevent this.
>
>
> What do you think?
>
>
> It concerns these lists:
>
> alexandria-cvs
> anaphora-cvs
> anaphora-devel
> ansi-test-cvs
> ansi-test-devel
> armedbear-announce
> armedbear-cvs
> asdf-install-devel
> asdf-packaging-announce
> aspiwork-pdm-cvs
> aspiwork-pdm-devel
> bese-devel
> bordeaux-threads-announce
> bordeaux-threads-ticket
> boston-lisp-announce
> boston-lisp-organizers
> cello-devel
> cells-gtk-devel
> cffi-objects-cvs
> cl-berkeley-db-devel
> cl-bzip2-devel
> cl-containers-devel
> cl-dbf-cvs
> cl-dwim-devel
> cl-ec2-devel
> cl-emb-devel
> cl-facebook-devel
> cl-fuse-devel
> cl-glpk-devel
> cl-graph-devel
> cl-gsl-devel
> cl-gtk2-devel
> cl-heap-announce
> cl-jpeg-devel
> cl-json-announce
> cl-kanren-trs-cvs
> cl-kanren-trs-devel
> cl-l10n-devel
> cl-monad-macros-cvs
> cl-mpi-devel
> cl-muproc-devel
> cl-ncurses-devel
> cl-neo4j-cvs
> cl-neo4j-devel
> cl-openid-devel
> cl-openid-ticket
> cl-org-mode-devel
> cl-pdf-announce
> cl-pdf-devel
> cl-perec-devel
> cl-plus-j-announce
> cl-plus-j-devel
> cl-plus-ssl-cvs
> cl-plus-ssl-devel
> cl-pop-devel
> cl-proc-devel
> cl-sbml-cvs
> cl-selenium-devel
> cl-smtp-devel
> cl-soap-devel
> cl-sqlite-announce
> cl-sqlite-devel
> cl-store-devel
> cl-table-cvs
> cl-twitter-devel
> cl-typesetting-announce
> cl-typesetting-devel
> cl-unification-devel
> cl-utilities-devel
> cl-walker-devel
> cl-xmlspam-devel
> cl-xmpp-devel
> cl-yacc-ebnf-devel
> clbuild-devel
> cldoc-devel
> cleric-announce
> cleric-devel
> clfswm-announce
> clfswm-cvs
> clfswm-devel
> climacs-devel
> climplayer-devel
> clonsigna-announce
> clonsigna-devel
> closer-announce
> closer-devel
> clouchdb-cvs
> clouchdb-devel
> clsql-fluid-devel
> clx-devel
> cmucl-ticket
> common-lisp-beginner-cvs
> de-setf-amqp-cvs
> definer-announce
> docudown-devel
> eager-future-devel
> ecl-readline-devel
> eclipse-devel
> editor-hints-devel
> elephant-devel
> elephant-ticket
> f2cl-ticket
> fetter-devel
> fiveam-announce
> fset-devel
> gecol-devel
> ginseng-cvs
> gsharp-devel
> gtk-cffi-cvs
> gtk-cffi-devel
> heresy-devel
> implementation-hackers
> iolib-announce
> iolib-devel
> ip-interfaces-devel
> isidorus-devel
> kpax-devel
> l-math-announce
> l-math-devel
> langutils-devel
> lgtk-devel
> lift-devel
> linedit-cvs
> linedit-devel
> lisp-interface-library-devel
> lisp-machine
> lispbox-cvs
> lispbox-devel
> lisplab-cvs
> lisplab-devel
> lisppaste-devel
> lisppaste-requests
> lispy-devel
> lmud-devel
> local-time-devel
> mel-base-devel
> metabang-bind-devel
> metacopy-devel
> metatilities-base-devel
> mit-cadr-cvs
> mod-lisp-devel
> movitz-devel
> names-and-paths-devel
> nixies-devel
> noctool-cvs
> oct-cvs
> oct-ticket
> pal-devel
> parenscript-announce
> pg-devel
> plexippus-xpath-devel
> protobuf-devel
> python-on-lisp-devel
> rfc2388-cvs
> rucksack-cvs
> rucksack-devel
> s-xml-devel
> sicl-announce
> sicl-devel
> slime-cvs
> snow-announce
> snow-cvs
> snow-devel
> spray-devel
> teepeedee2-devel
> the-feebs-war-devel
> tinaa-devel
> travisci
> trivial-backtrace-devel
> trivial-gray-streams-devel
> trivial-utf-8-devel
> uri-template-devel
> usocket-announce
> usocket-ticket
> vivace-graph-devel
> web4r-devel
> web4r-devel-ja
> xcvb-devel
> xuriella-devel
> zip-devel
>
>
> --
> Bye,
>
> Erik.
>
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