Sergei Vyshenski wrote: > On Sept 14 I tried to post to the openca-users list writing from the > mail address, which was not registered with this list.
It is common policy (default setting imho) at source-forge (this has nothing todo with openca) that you have to post from an registered address to an maillinglist to keep spam-activity low > It took exactly 7 days to get the following answer: > > Your request to the Openca-Users mailing list has been rejected by the > list moderator. The moderator gave the following reason for rejecting > your request: "Non-members are not allowed to post messages to this > list. Please subscribe to the mailing list(s) and then send in your > message(s) again. More informations are available at > http://www.openca.org/openca/. Should you require more assistance, > please write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]" > this may do to the reason, that the maintainer of the list doesn't check for bounces (so often) - i wouldn't do neither ;) and then i think there is a automatic timeout like those seven days where the maillinglist software sends an automated denial of the request... but this is so since ages ;) - i also wrote quite some postings again even years ago... i mean if your question is importend and does not appear on the list after a day while still other postings arrive - i would just write it again or subscribe this second address too... > Does it manifest a war between openca.org and openca.info? no, i don't think so > What is a "true" policy to post to the lists, and why it is not stated > in plain wording on the page http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=20873 > Do you think it is a good idea to block anonymous postings to openca-users? what you mean by anonymous - its just about registered or lets say subscribed addresses and not subscribed ones... - they would be still anonym > Say if I have a single minor question and not very fond of idea of > subscription? then you simply cant ask - there is a rule, if you don'T like it, you cant post... its that simple and the amount of time for someone looking through all those bounces (generated though whatever maillings) and the amount of time to subscribe cleare points to: you have to subscribe since its a little inconvinience for a lot of people compared to a big inconvinience for one or two persons... and further more - you are guarantied your posting will occur 'on time' > And who is Mr. "project.manager"? you can easily see this at the source-forge pages greetings dalini ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php _______________________________________________ Openca-Users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openca-users
