Python Interviews by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Packt Publishing

Barry Warsaw: 'I think another lesson is to be open with what you do and give your time and your expertise.'

Driscoll: Have you had any challenges with the Mailman project that you didn't expect to have?

Warsaw: Oh yeah. I don't get this too much these days but because Mailman is free and we give it away, we don't really even know all of the people who use it.

We don't control Mailman in any way and we don't tell people what they can and cannot do with it. Most people use it for very good things, such as for their biking club, or certainly in a lot of tech discussion lists. But some people do use Mailman for nefarious purposes, like spamming people. One of the challenges is that we get contacted when people have been spammed by unscrupulous developers and we get a lot of threatening emails at times, which is very disheartening.

One of the things that I've learned is that people reach out to you in those cases when they are frustrated. They're going through pain because they're getting spammed by somebody. They don't know who is spamming them and they're not getting any relief from that person, so they search around.

Now, we put very prominent notices that we do not condone spam and we do not approve of using Mailman for any kind of illegal purposes. We encourage people to use Mailman for opt-in, so that you know that you're signing up for something. But we can't really control it.

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