On Friday 25 January 2002 01:48, Keith Packard wrote:
|   I'm going to switch this list to allow posting only by members; you're
| all familiar with the level of spam we've been receiving, and it seems
| obvious that it can only get worse as spammers tend to spend most of their
| time selling address lists.
|
|   For those who need to receive mail using a different address than
| sending, please subscribe both addresses and use the configuration tool to
| turn off mail to one of the addresses.
|
|   Much as I dislike this step, I think it will eliminate most non-relevant
|   posting to the list (aside from postings like this one :-).

Frankly speaking, I like this step a lot ;-)
I never understood why mailing lists allow posts of non-members.
Obviously, subscribing to ML you respect people posting to it, and those 
people (hopefully) respect you.

|
|   If this goes well, I anticipate transitioning the remaining XFree86 lists
|   sometime in the next couple of days.
|
|   Thanks for beeing guinea pigs.
|
|   Keith Packard        XFree86 Core Team        Compaq Cambridge Research
| Lab

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