From owner-mad-mission-news@smoe.org Sun Jun 24 18:59:32 2012 Received: from smoe.org (ident-user@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smoe.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id q5OMxWXe028749 for ; Sun, 24 Jun 2012 18:59:32 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by smoe.org (8.13.8/8.12.10/Submit) id q5OMxWZ4028748 for mad-mission-news-outgoing; Sun, 24 Jun 2012 18:59:32 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: smoe.org: majordom set sender to owner-mad-mission-news@smoe.org using -f Received: from hrndva-omtalb.mail.rr.com (hrndva-omtalb.mail.rr.com [71.74.56.122]) by smoe.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id q5OMxCAw028739 for ; Sun, 24 Jun 2012 18:59:32 -0400 (EDT) X-Authority-Analysis: v=2.0 cv=cIliQyiN c=1 sm=0 a=0AczrsCOtSgtDKnDCfbEnA==:17 a=ggaoha-03TcA:10 a=FhB3bvj6xqEA:10 a=ZKKcDshQnh8A:10 a=kj9zAlcOel0A:10 a=AaV-L8iSAAAA:8 a=ayC55rCoAAAA:8 a=s4JCbojFD6Az_c4s374A:9 a=CjuIK1q_8ugA:10 wl=env:15 a=0AczrsCOtSgtDKnDCfbEnA==:117 X-Cloudmark-Score: 0 X-Originating-IP: 69.204.220.17 Received: from [69.204.220.17] ([69.204.220.17:63774] helo=Mike-HP-desktop.aol.com) by hrndva-oedge01.mail.rr.com (envelope-from ) (ecelerity 2.2.3.46 r()) with ESMTP id AF/5F-08491-56B97EF4; Sun, 24 Jun 2012 22:57:41 +0000 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 7.1.0.9 Message-ID: Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2012 18:56:43 -0400 To: mad-mission-news@smoe.org From: Mike Connell Subject: PattyG-News: This NEWS list is closing down Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.5 (2006-08-29) on jane.smoe.org X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=failed version=3.1.5 X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.0 (smoe.org [127.0.0.1]); Sun, 24 Jun 2012 18:59:32 -0400 (EDT) X-Greylist: Delayed for 00:01:25 by milter-greylist-2.0 (smoe.org [199.201.145.78]); Sun, 24 Jun 2012 18:59:32 -0400 (EDT) Sender: owner-mad-mission-news@smoe.org Precedence: bulk Hey all. I am here to announce that I am closing down the News list version of Mad-Mission. Being that it is a fully moderated list, I send on a post to this list about once every two years now, if that. All posts sent on are "newsy" posts culled from the regular (loose mail) version of the list. With the regular version of the list trudging along at a crippled snails pace (about 1.25 posts per week), I figure that version and/or the digest version will suffice. Members of the news list can join the regular version or the digest version. There have been just 37 posts made to the loose-mail version all year and roughly 16 or so digests this year. By closing down the news version, it will cut down the daily spam I have to deal with coming from non-subscribed email addresses and/or spoofed emails from subscribed members. There are upwards of a dozen or so of those each day. A week from tonight I will close down this list by unsubscribing everyone on it. If you want to be put on either the regular (loose-mail) version or the digest version, please send me a reply dictating which version you prefer and I will take care of it. For those of you that do not know, the digest version is a daily email that includes all of the posts made to the regular list that day. If there were no posts made that day, there will not be a digest that day. For the record, in case you were wondering, there are currently 344 distinct email addresses subscribed to Mad-Mission news, 154 on the digest and 329 on the regular. At their peaks, News had 409 subscribers, digest 226 and regular 406. Mike