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 -- Vadim Plessky http://kde2.newmail.ru (English) 33 Window Decorations and 6 Widget Styles for KDE http://kde2.newmail.ru/kde_themes.html KDE mini-Themes http://kde2.newmail.ru/themes/ _______________________________________________ Render mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/render
