Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Andrzej Adam Filip Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc,comp.mail.sendmail Subject: Re: comp.mail.esmtp or comp.mail.mta ? Date: Fri, 08 Jan 2021 08:48:21 +0000 (UTC) Organization: It is for me to know and for you to find out. Lines: 43 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: reader02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="c8c1dc1705c5a7a4e3a8bae80f69d0f6"; logging-data="18741"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19QMLeGtogDF6c8vRLb/GvQ" Cancel-Lock: sha1:UA6GU2xpzbcKaahpmp2WFbR7QnQ= sha1:i799P2+pyWu1HlhZKc5S9IFRW+0= Xref: csiph.com comp.mail.misc:972 comp.mail.sendmail:4325 Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> wrote: > In comp.mail.misc, Grant Taylor 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