On 3/12/06, Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mike McCarty said: > > I proposed a change in order to prevent such posts. I propose that > > messages which come from non-subscribed aliases be rejected from the > > list. > > This has been asked for and rejected for the past several years. On > many things Debian is sensible. On this Debian is downright negligent > and utterly stupid. Want to know the reason why it isn't implemented?
It is because the listmasters, of which I am one, who read a lot of lists know precisely what happens when you close a list. People who want help can't get it. The whole *point* of debian-user is to facilitate that. > Because maybe, somewhere, someone who's looking for support is going to > somehow figure out how to set up Debian, get it online, get it sending > and receiving mail yet be utterly incapable of filling out the webform > to subscribe to the mailing list to receive help in order to.... set up > Debian, get it online, get it sending and receiving mail. > > Yeah, head explosion time right there. Or, they might only have access to a webmail service like hotmail via Windows. And just maybe they are trying to setup networking, wifi, broadband or even dual-booting. If you are finding it all too trivial, perhaps debian-user isn't really for you. Anand
