On Sat, 27 Sep 2003, Ken Foskey wrote:
> On Sat, 2003-09-27 at 19:16, Tony Green wrote:
>
> > I'd be stunned if that ever happened. Though I do think if there is to
> > be a change to the list setup, it should be decided by a vote of the
> > financial members.
>
> Let's cut the BS and really put it to the vote...
>
> As a financial member I would like to propose a motion for the next
> meeting that we vote on the slug mailing list.
>
> a) Leaving it alone.
> b) Moving to a moderated list.
> c) Changing it to a members only list.
> d) Changing it to a financial members only list.
How about we add my proposal of making non-member posts subject to having
the email address validated much like you do when subscribing. Then we can
make posting to the list available to members plus a list of validated
exceptions. The validation may optionally expire after an arbitrary period
of say 3 months.
While we're at it, another idea would be to limit cross-posting. IE if you
want to send to slug send it to slug and maybe the person you're replying
to only.
How would this be done technically? Possibly a procmail filter that just
checks if the sender is on a) main list or b) exception list, if not,
generate a 'subscribe' request on the sender's behalf to the 'exceptions'
mailing list that cannot be posted to, they would then have to subscribe
to the exceptions list. If they're on either a) or b) lists forward onto
normal mailman stuff.
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