A few others and myself have been moderating the list to ensure only legit subscribers get through. With that being said there are quite a fair bit of emails coming in from non subscribers which is proving rather hard to keep up with.
On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 2:03 PM, Bogdan Costescu <bcoste...@gmail.com>wrote: > On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 3:06 AM, Christopher Samuel > <sam...@unimelb.edu.au> wrote: > > I'd like to solicit opinions from list members on changing the policy > > of the list on messages from non-subscribers from the current default > > of holding them for moderation to the position of rejecting them (with > > an explanatory message). > > Does someone have a figure of how many non-subscribers posts we are > talking about ? I have the impression that lately I've seen only > messages coming from "regulars". If non-subscribers post very little, > then such a change would not be very annoying IMHO. > > OTOH, I hope that archives (wherever they are) remain publicly available. > > > The reason is that currently us new list admins get many dozens of > > spams a day being held for moderation > > We should be very thankful to Don Becker for doing a wonderful job > with the list for many years :) > > Cheers, > Bogdan > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit > http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf > -- Jonathan Aquilina
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