On Fri, May 13, 2005 at 03:13:27PM +0200, Thomas Zander wrote: > On Friday 13 May 2005 14:36, Jamie Webb wrote: > > This is getting silly. As an alternative to outright rejection or > > manual moderation of messages from non-subscribers, would it be > > possible to connect the mailing list manager to a challenge-response > > system? > > I've seen several systems die who introduced that; nobody posted anymore. > Such systems are only usefull for websites.
Bear in mind that this would only be for the first post of a non-subscribed user, in order to give then 'semi-subscribed' status. Subscribed users would notice no difference (except hopefully reduced spam). > > I know they're evil in general, but this seems like an > > acceptable usage. > > I moderate a number of lists and never ever had a complaint for slowness in > manual moderation yet. > I must note I tend to turn the 'your request is awaiting moderation' email > off so users will not really notice slowness anyway. > > ps. if there are no moderators for darcs-user yet, I'd be willing to do so, > but I don't want to do it for devel. Well, if there's a volunteer then that works (and you presumably are pretty easy to configure :-). I just know I wouldn't want the job. -- Jamie Webb _______________________________________________ darcs-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.abridgegame.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users
