On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 07:49:06PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Pascal Hakim writes ("Posting on the list [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: md5sum <FILE
> produces spurious ` -' in output]"):
> > Back in Feb 2003, this list was turned into a subscribers-only
> > list. This means that unless those people are subscribed, they won't be
> > able to post.
>
> This is to try to reduce the amount of spam.
>
> > Based on some of the denied emails I've seen over the last few
> > months, this has caused more confusion than good, and you guys might
> > want to consider changing it back to at least a moderated list.
>
> At least the denied emails get returned to the poster. Does the error
> message not indicate what's wrong ?
It does tell them what's wrong, but the vast majority of people seem
to not bother again. It doesn't really encourage people to
participate.
> > This is specially the case when you are getting people to reply
> > to the list.
>
> I can see that it is inconvenient to have to subscribe to post, and
> then to unsubscribe again when you stop being interested, but the
> amount of spam that was coming through the list beforehand was making
> life all but impossible.
You could pick a member of the tech-ctte to be a moderator for the
list. It'd probably work better.
>
> <troll/ Now if we could run SAUCE on lists ... /
We could delete the list. You wouldn't get any spam then... ;-)
Cheers,
Pasc
