Change in mailing list configuration

[Bruce Bannerman]

Well said Florian,

I won’t be far behind you.

…and we wonder why user engagement on the lists has dropped off.

I have made some great friends within the OSGeo community over the years. Best wishes to you all.

I’ll be decommissioning this email address in the near future.  If you’d like to stay in contact drop me a private email.

Kind regards,

Bruce


> On 12 Jan 2024, at 19:05, Florian Ledermann <florian.ledermann at tuwien.ac.at> wrote:
> 
> I'm unsubscribing in protest of those changes.
> 
> I was hoping that this proposal would be objected by more active community members, but as a mere lurker it is not worth it for me to engage in lengthy discussions, if the people in charge decide to break decodes-long established UX conventions on short notice for the sake of "spam protection". As far as I see it these developments are mainly driven by corporations who pursue the political goal of destroying independent email infrastructure, and I would have hoped the OS community to resist those developments instead of happily nodding along.
> 
> Best, Florian
> 
> 
>> On 11.01.2024 19:31, Sandro Santilli wrote:
>> We've changed the configuration of this mailing list to respect the
>> recomendations from the SysAdmin team:
>>     https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/SAC:Mailing_Lists#Configuring_the_mailing_list
>> Notable changes are:
>>   1. No more [OSGeo-Discuss] prefix in email subjects
>>   2. No more added footer
>>   3. Real sender address in the From field
>>   4. DKIM signed emails will not be considered maliciously tampered \o/
>> For filtering the emails or finding mailing list address to change
>> user preferences you will be able to use the email headers.
>> Many mail user agents should be able to figure this out by themselves,
>> others might need manual configuration.
>> Just as an example, my mail configuration for the PostGIS Developers
>> looks like this (procmail recipe):
>>   :0
>>   * ^List-ID:.*postgis-devel.lists.osgeo.org
>>   * !^X-List-Administrivia: yes
>>   .postgis-devel/
>> Happy mailing !
>> --strk;
>>   Libre GIS consultant/developer
>>   https://strk.kbt.io/services.html
> 
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