[TxMt] mailing list access

[Abhay Kumar]

> in the earlier days of textmate, i was able to send to  
> textmate at lists.macromates.com with a bogus address (trying to avoid  
> spam).

I don't particularly see an exact reason for doing this as the  
archives do not have normal email addresses listed and relatively  
good protection against email-collecting bots. Of course, the list  
does not prevent a human from reading the email and entering it into  
a spam database but that's the probably with any public archive. It's  
something we just have to accept.

> [snip]
> would be nice to have a way to send without being subscribed, if  
> you can think of one. a bogus subscription address that's allowed.  
> or a magic text cookie of some sort in the body of the message  
> (probably shouldn't be 'viagra' =).

That's an added step to submission to the list. I don't see a  
necessary reason for this. Set up a spam filtering account and use  
it. What I do is have one alias on my domain for all of my email  
lists which gets bounced through a specific gmail account also  
created just for this purpose.


> [snip]

- abhay

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Abhay Kumar