On Tue, 15 Jun 2004 20:41:16 -0400 "Tim Peters" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [Mohsen Moeeni] > > Fristly excuse me for cross-posting. Actually, I did not like to be > > the person who comes this up however the amount of spams which is > > propagated thru the lists is annoying. I wonder why the guys at Zope > > Inc. does not tweak the list settings so posting is only allowed by > > the members. > > Perhaps just the weight of history, and/or trying to keep the barriers > to participation as low as possible. Speaking as zodb-dev's list > admin, I'd be happy to restrict posting to members, *if* people don't > object to the idea. I spend an increasingly resented part of each day > doing list-admin triage(for zodb-dev and about 6 other mailing lists). > > A predictable irritation is that Mailman's answer to "member?" is > based on the posting's sender's email address, but many people post > from more than one account. If you want the default action for > non-member posts to be"hold for review", I won't do it -- I can't > afford the additional time sink."reject" is the no-manual-intervention > default action, but it would place a new burden on members posting > from non-member accounts (their posts would be rejected, at least > until they asked the list admin to add their other posting accounts to > Mailman's list of non-members to accept -- and they would need to do > that on a per-list basis). Another issue is posting from Gmane, which I am doing right now. Although that may look like a post from me to mailman, I dunno. -Casey _______________________________________________ Zope-Dev maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope )