Hi,

I just got this message:
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This happened because I replied to a mail that had
[email protected] in CC. This I think is a good thing,
cross-posting helps to get relevant messages to relevant people.
However, in order for cross-posting to be useful people should be able
to send mails to lists they are not subscribed to, otherwise the
threads will be messed up.

One way to achieve this is to only require a subscription to _one_
list, in order to allow sending messages to all of them. I have never
seen anybody doing this though.

My preferred option is to allow anybody to post, but go through
moderation if not subscribed. This welcomes everybody into the
discussion, and even allows for cross-posting between lists that are
not meego.com. Many mailing lists, like all the ones in vger do this:
http://vger.kernel.org/vger-lists.html

What do you think?

Cheers.

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Felipe Contreras
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