On 9 Dec, 2017, at 9:27, Adam Weinberger <[email protected]> wrote:
The [email protected] (aka freebsd-ports@) mailing list now requires you
to subscribe to the list before posting. This brings us two important
benefits:
* This should cut back tremendously on spam coming through the list.
* Users are more likely to find better answers to their questions: The
first three times a question is asked, it gets detailed replies. The
fourth through nth times usually get a one sentence reply.
This ONLY affects sending messages to the list. It does NOT affect:
- Receiving messages or replies
- Viewing the archives
(https://www.freebsd.org/community/mailinglists.html)
- Searching the archives
If you have any questions about this, don't hesitate to ask!
From dhw:
I'll pass along a tip that I just sent to postmaster@: in the past (for
other lists @FreeBSD.org), some folks have subscribed to receive the
list mail at some address, but tried to post from a different address.
To mitigate that, my suggestion has usually been for the affected folks
to *also* subscribe for the "posting" address, but use Mailman
facilities to set that subscription to "nomail."
--
Adam Weinberger
[email protected]
https://www.adamw.org
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