Shawn Walker wrote: > On 03/ 4/10 11:27 AM, Garrett D'Amore wrote: > ... > >1) You can't send to on-discuss@ unless you're subscribed. In the past, > >many of these messages from me bounced. I suspect that's true for others > >as well. To fix this, you need to either require all ON contributors to > >subscribe to ON discuss, or fix the draconian mailing list moderation > >policy on on-discuss at . > > Automatically accepting email from unsubscribed members really isn't > safe -- there's way too much spam that still gets through the > filters. > > I help moderate pkg-discuss; and believe me, you do not want just > anyone to be able to get through and attempting to base that on > *...@sun.com addresses doesn't work either. Ask Elaine about that...
Still, putting the messages into the moderation queue would be far friendlier than bouncing them outright. The pkg-discuss moderation duties are quite small, and the normal list traffic there is pretty sizeable. I imagine moderating on-discuss wouldn't be a huge burden. Danek
