At 23:36 on 21 Feb 2023, Jean Abou Samra wrote: > Hi,
> I've not been an admin of this list for very long, yet I'm already > weary of telling people who post without being subscribed to the list > that they should subscribe in order to avoid each of their messages > being manually approved. I wonder what you (meaning everyone, but > especially Mark, the other admin) would think about changing the list > configuration to reject post from non-members instead of holding them > on moderation, with a message such as > “Welcome to the lilypond-user mailing list. We apologize, but in order > to prevent spam, we need you to subscribe to the list before you post. > Please fill out the subscription form on > [https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user](https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user). > Once you are subscribed, you will receive all posts to the list, so > you can help out other people as well. However, if you only wish to > interact with this list infrequently, you may disable mail > subscription in your membership preferences after you have subscribed. > If you believe you are already subscribed to the list, it probably > means that you accidentally posted from a different email address than > the one you are subscribed with. > If you have any question or encounter problems, feel free to contact > the list admins at [email protected]” > On the plus side, this means that instead of delaying the message > until Mark or me looks at it, the feedback will come instantly. > Jean Thanks Jean, I support this proposal. -- Mark Knoop
