Time for me to respond to this thread.
I own daserversolutions.com and I set up a mailing list there (I don't yet use the domain for anything else). I set up the list a long time ago and offered it to John, of DirectAdmin, and he accepted.
That way I administer the list, and John doesn't have to worry about excepetions such as undelivered messages, spam to the list (which bounces to me), and people who want to subscribe from addresses other than that they write in from (which I approve).
Except in an emergency (so far only one time) John is the only person who's ever posted to the list. I've posted once. No one complained.
I subscribe to the list. As one of the administrators of the forum, I suppose that every time John posts about a new version I could log onto the forum and create a new thread. However that's something I don't think I want to do; it takes time out of my day and it's a responsibility I'd rather avoid.
I suppose John could do so as well. And if he does or not is entirely up to him, but it's just something else he'd have to do, so we'll leave that up to him. Personally, I think he works hard enough.
Am I ever going to misuse the list? No. I'm well known among some of the anti-spam community, and I'm an avid anti-spammer. I've been anti-spam since spam was invented; and if I recall correctly that was about the same time I built my first webhosting company, in 1995.
I'm also the author of the SpamBlocker exim.conf file included in DirectAdmin. Did I write some kind of backdoor in it to harvest email addresses? Of course not.
Nor do I use the email addresses that people use when they join this forum, even though I could. When I need to reach someone, if they have their account set up to accept emails, and the forum dropdown box shows the email option, I use it; otherwise I use the PM system.
I believe I've proved my integrity.
But if you don't, then of course don't subscribe to the list.
Jeff
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