I wrote:
This sort of thing makes me not a happy camper -- and the point is, _it keeps happening_. I have politely asked people before, in this space, to cease changing mailing list settings without checking with me. It has not worked.
In fact, on occasion, I read through the configuration screens of all three of our mailing lists, looking for things that have been whimsically changed without discussion. About half the time, I find some. Today's run:
1. Somebody doubled from 5 to 10 the permissible number of addresses on posts to balug-announce. Reverted.
2. Somebody switched off password reminders for balug-admin. Reverted.
3. Somebody added a large number of (probable) spammer addresses, most of them in .jp, to the roster of addresses from which postings to balug-talk will be automatically discarded. Reverted.
4. Somebody put Christian Einfeldt's GMail address in _this_ mailing list's roster of addresses from which postings will be automatically discarded. Reverted! That seems an incredibly harsh and unjustifiable thing to do to Christian, and I'm quite shocked that somebody did that. (I'm referring to "einfeldt@gmail.com", which is in fact a subscribed address in good standing on this mailing list.)
Now, with the exception of that last item, all of these are matters that might be worth considering upon discussion. The point was: There was no discussion -- and, when things like that get screwed up, it reflects badly on me much more than on the rest of you (my name being the one shown as listadmin), _and_ the public at large will naturally assume I'm the guy who did them.
Christian, my regrets on behalf of BALUG for whoever decided your postings to this list should be autodiscarded. (It was not I.)