Alex Shinn <alexsh...@gmail.com> writes: > On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 12:36 PM, Mark H Weaver <m...@netris.org> wrote: >> Alex Shinn <alexsh...@gmail.com> writes: >>> The moderator is mostly inactive. Is subscribing >>> really such a problem for people? >> >> If subscribers can post without moderation, >> then I will be glad to subscribe. > > Yes, of course they can. I think at least 95% > of mailing lists these days work the same way > to avoid spam.
If postings will never get accepted anyway, they should be rejected instead of being silently discarded. An unannounced "mostly inactive moderator" is rather impolite. -- David Kastrup