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Re: comp.mail.esmtp or comp.mail.mta ?

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Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> wrote:
> In comp.mail.misc, Grant Taylor  <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net> wrote:
>> On 1/6/21 1:37 PM, Andrzej Adam Filip wrote:
>>> Is there a need for news:comp.mail.esmtp or news:comp.mail.mta ?
>
> Doubtful. comp.mail.misc can cover anything not covered by other
> comp.mail.* groups, and comp.mail.misc gets virtually no traffic.
>
>> They aren't in my active file, so I can't check their history.  Which is 
>> in and of itself strange as I thought my active file was based on the 
>> ISC default.
>
> I think Andrzej was not asking if the groups should be removed, but if
> they should be added. (Or maybe he was asking if they should be removed,
> but in that case: yes. Those are not official Big-8 newsgroups.)
>
>> I also question is there any value in removing (part of) the comp 
>> hierarchy?  Seeing as how leaving it in the active file seems to take 
>> very few resources.
>
> It will be mean fewer places for "The Doctor" to post his Xananews
> statistics posts, and fewer places for the odd other spammer to show up.
>
>>> Starting formal procedure would be waste of time with no interest.
>> Starting a formal procedure to do what?
>
> I think he meant formal procedure to add those groups. I think that
> indeed would be a waste of time. As for a formal procedure to remove the
> groups, that shouldn't be necessary. Just apply a checkgroups message.
> The big-8.org wiki points to this FTP site:
>
> ftp://ftp.isc.org/pub/usenet/news.announce.newgroups/Group_Lists
>
> for the official list of groups.

I think that short term "recommendation" may be to
post some replies to news:comp.mail.misc *too*.

news:comp.mail.sendmail is "more alive" and because of it receives also
"much more than sendmail" question.

-- 
[Andrew] Andrzej A. Filip

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Re: comp.mail.esmtp or comp.mail.mta ? Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net> - 2021-01-07 11:06 -0700
  Re: comp.mail.esmtp or comp.mail.mta ? Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2021-01-07 22:27 +0000
    Re: comp.mail.esmtp or comp.mail.mta ? Andrzej Adam Filip <anfi@onet.eu> - 2021-01-08 08:48 +0000
    Re: comp.mail.esmtp or comp.mail.mta ? Tristan Wibberley <tristan.wibberley+netnews2@alumni.manchester.ac.uk> - 2024-03-12 10:17 +0000
      Re: comp.mail.esmtp or comp.mail.mta ? Marco Moock <mm+usenet-es@dorfdsl.de> - 2024-03-12 12:28 +0100
        Re: comp.mail.esmtp or comp.mail.mta ? Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2024-03-12 13:12 +0000
      Re: comp.mail.esmtp or comp.mail.mta ? Julieta Shem <jshem@yaxenu.org> - 2024-03-12 10:31 -0300
        Re: comp.mail.esmtp or comp.mail.mta ? Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net> - 2024-03-12 21:45 -0500
          Re: comp.mail.esmtp or comp.mail.mta ? Julieta Shem <jshem@yaxenu.org> - 2024-03-13 16:44 -0300
            Re: comp.mail.esmtp or comp.mail.mta ? Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net> - 2024-03-13 23:38 -0500
              Re: comp.mail.esmtp or comp.mail.mta ? dbastos@ic.ufrj.br - 2024-03-14 08:12 -0300
                Re: comp.mail.esmtp or comp.mail.mta ? Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2024-03-14 13:30 +0000
                Re: comp.mail.esmtp or comp.mail.mta ? Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net> - 2024-03-14 21:18 -0500
                Re: comp.mail.esmtp or comp.mail.mta ? Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2024-03-15 14:20 +0000
                Re: comp.mail.esmtp or comp.mail.mta ? Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net> - 2024-03-15 15:54 -0500
                Re: comp.mail.esmtp or comp.mail.mta ? Johanne Fairchild <jfairchild@tudado.org> - 2024-03-19 07:40 -0300
                Re: comp.mail.esmtp or comp.mail.mta ? Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2024-03-19 13:20 +0000
                Re: comp.mail.esmtp or comp.mail.mta ? Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net> - 2024-03-19 08:35 -0500
                Re: comp.mail.esmtp or comp.mail.mta ? Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2024-03-19 14:45 +0000
                Re: comp.mail.esmtp or comp.mail.mta ? Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net> - 2024-03-19 18:32 -0500
                Re: comp.mail.esmtp or comp.mail.mta ? Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net> - 2024-03-19 08:26 -0500
          Re: comp.mail.esmtp or comp.mail.mta ? Tristan Wibberley <tristan.wibberley+netnews2@alumni.manchester.ac.uk> - 2024-03-19 15:46 +0000
      Re: comp.mail.esmtp or comp.mail.mta ? Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2024-03-13 05:56 +0000
        Re: comp.mail.esmtp or comp.mail.mta ? Eric Pozharski <apple.universe@posteo.net> - 2024-03-14 07:38 +0000
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