[ic] Website down

[Stefan Hornburg (Racke)]

On 03/03/2023 07:41, Jon Jensen via interchange-users wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Mar 2023, DB via interchange-users wrote:
> 
>>> On this note, I have to say I'm considering shutting down the Interchange mailing lists entirely.
>>>
>>> It has become really difficult to run a public mail server due to the heavy amounts of spam, lots of list subscribers abandoning their free email accounts that fill up and reject all messages or else clicking "spam" instead of unsubscribing themselves, and this adds to existing deliverability problems to the big email providers most people use: Yahoo, Google, Apple, Microsoft.
>>>
>>> The server's Postfix mail queue is always clogged with 50k+ deferred messages because of receiving servers saying "temporarily deferred due to unexpected volume or user complaints" etc. Sometimes we have to just purge them all to start over.
>>
>> I agree that running an in-house email/list server is a big pain, but I do like the non-real-time nature of email. IRC is fine but messages scroll away pretty quickly. How about something like Google Groups?
> 
> I've never been a big fan of Google Groups, but it's certainly an option.
> 
> However, like you, I much prefer this mailing list to IRC, and since people piped up and are still here, it seems worth keeping.
> 
> I was able to block a few countries full of bad actors and no Interchange users I'm aware of, and the subscription-bombing stopped completely and the mail queues are no longer clogged with junk.
> 
> So, for now we can just keep the lists active, no need to shut them down.
> 
> Jon
> 
> 

Sounds go to me. Thanks a lot for keeping it up!

Regards
        Racke

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