On Tue, 2003-02-11 at 16:09, Ira Abramov wrote: > > This is because Eyal won't find the time to follow the Linux-IL mailing > > list and help other Linux-IL subscribers with their problems, in exchange > > for the help which he is asking for now. > > well, you can also mention the fact that the post was authorized by Alex > Shnitman, which saw it as ok to forward the post to the list, in the > future, Alex, please consider such posts as off-topic, please. in fact > I don't mind questions from offlist people, but questions about > proprietery products with no intereset for the Free Software community > (nor even, sigh, for OpenSource people), should be filtered out.
Generally, the moderating system which filters messages from non-subscribers was set up in order to cut on the spam that's sent to the list address (and let me tell you, it's quite a massive amount these days). So usually I just check whether the message is spam or a normal message, and if it's not spam I forward it -- just as I don't moderate posts from subscribers, I don't moderate posts which happen to be from addresses that are not subscribed, unless I obviously see it's grossly off-topic or inappropriate. This posting mentioned Red Hat Linux so I figured it's not entirely off-topic and didn't bother looking into it very hard. If it's desired, and enough people are willing to take on the job, I guess we can set this list up as a moderated list, but I don't think that everybody will agree to do this. -- Alex Shnitman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.hectic.net/ UIN 188956 PGP 0xEC5D619D / E1 F2 7B 6C A0 31 80 28 63 B8 02 BA 65 C7 8B BA ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
