Conceptually, I agree that lists should be open, but with spam as flagrant as
it is today, I think it's more trouble then it's worth.
Mike
James Henstridge wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Jun 2000, Hassan Aurag wrote:
>
> >
> > To hell with spam. All the maintainer has to do with mailman is to
> > disable posting for non-subscribed. Sure this kindda annoying, if you are
> > subscribed but post from another email address.
> >
> > But this could be solved, by changing mailman so that I could subscribe
> > as
> >
> > myname with primary email.com and aliases. It can be done now but
> > manually and only by maintainer as far as I know.
> >
> > So solution: disable non-member posting. Cause then they'd need to
> > subscribe and receive our emails ;)
> >
>
> What do others on the list think of this? Having the list open to non
> subscriber postings is nice if someone starts a cross posted discussion,
> but lets some spam through (mailman has been quite good and filtered out
> most of the spam though).
>
> If I do close the list so that only subscriber posting is allowed, you
> will need to do the following for your other email addresses:
> 1) subscribe all your other email addresses to the list.
> 2) in the web interface, turn off mail delivery for all but one address.
>
> So should I disable non subscriber posting?
>
> James.
>
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