[M3announce] [M3devel] Mailing lists and website resources at elegosoft.com

[dirk muysers]

Sorry, but I don’t see any spam on m3devel. All messages of this month have been technical

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> On 16 Mar 2021, at 21:00, Olaf Wagner <wagner at elegosoft.com> wrote:
> 
> Hello everybody!
> 
> There’s much traffic here in recent weeks, and not all of that is caused by
> meaningful messages from real users. In fact, the m3 mailing lists at
> elegosoft.com are used increasingly for spamming and we get more and more
> abuse warnings from our hosting provider.
> 
> I also notice that we still host the now 20 years old website for cm3
> which hasn’t changed for more than 10 years.
> 
> Due to the COVID-19 pandemic our resources are currently rather limited.
> System administration would like to shutdown and get rid of as many
> legacy systems and liabilities as possible. At least we need to close
> the open subscription interfaces on the mailing lists as they are abused
> for spamming. Some counter measures have been implemented, but they are
> not as effective as needed.
> 
> So what I’m asking is
> - which of the existing mailing lists and web resources are actually still
> needed
> - what can be done to enable a migration for example to github
> - and who would like to take care of either maintaining or migrating the
> existing legacy resources?
> 
> Our system administration will close the open subscription option at the
> next weekend. We can continue to provide the list services with explicit
> subscription via member recommendation or something similar if that is
> wanted and needed. We can of course also just shutdown the complete lists
> and provide archives of the last 20 years of mailings to import or make
> available on another platform.
> 
> I myself still feel somehow attached to m3, but haven’t actively contributed
> for many years and am not likely to find the time soon to do so. So anybody
> who would like to step in and take over something we still host is welcome.
> 
> Olaf
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