well, I see your point, and, not to worry.. i've been on the net since my first Andrew account at Carnegie Mellon in 1987!
I see and subscribed to both kinds of lists, open lists like this one which allow anyone to ask a question and get a response and others which require subscription or have even more restrictive rules or moderation... also- disclaimer... I used to work for VA-Linux (now VA Software which owns and maintains sourceforge)... I think we'll have more success containing the impact of this virus by restriciting posting to subscribers than we will getting VA to 'fix' their MTA (which i think is the thing that would have to be fixed to remedy the situation..) Cheers, J> On Tue, 27 Jan 2004, Hisashi T Fujinaka wrote: > No, I think it is you who don't understand. A lot of times people just > have a single question, and they want to be able to ask the question and > then get direct email replies to that question without subscribing to > the list. I don't know how new you are to the idea of the internet, but > this is how fink has worked, how netbsd works, etc. > > If you want people to use your software, you make it as inclusive as > possible. Then you fix your email servers to keep them from propogating > all the trash that comes from all the poorly set-up windows machines on > the internet. > > On Tue, 27 Jan 2004, Joshua S. Freeman wrote: > > > Hisahsi, > > > > you don't understand... all we're suggesting is that one must first > > SUBSCRIBE to the list in order to send questions/queries to the list... > > > > hardly exclusionary. > > > > J. > > > > On > > Tue, 27 Jan 2004, Hisashi T Fujinaka wrote: > > > > > On Tue, 27 Jan 2004, Phillip Pi wrote: > > > > > > > Block unsubscribed users. I always thought unsubscribers can't post. > > > > > > This is ridiculous. We should allow anyone to ask questions. We don't > > > want fink to be a members only club. > > > > > > > > > > > > -- ------ Joshua S. Freeman [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
