On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 06:14:09PM -0700, Ian Scott wrote: > On 04/07/2014 07:47 AM, Juan Jimenez wrote: > >Is there a reason this list allows anyone to post messages? The amount of > >spam on this list is astounding. This is 2014, folks. The methods to > >prevent this became good practice long, long ago. > > I agree, this is pretty ridiculous. The list should be only open to > posting from subscribers.
What is ridiculous are lists which send messages back to people who are brought to a conversation and which force them to subscribe before posting a response to kindly offer assistance to help someone. This list, as a number of other opensource projects lists, is open, which means that *nobody* is forced to subscribe to contribute. If you don't subscribe, you don't receive any spam. So I strongly urge you to unsubscribe to save 20 or so spams a week you can get here. I'm used to get something between 10 and 100 a day on other higher volume lists and it's not a problem, so surely dealing with 20 a week is OK. Willy
