We don't use filters -- We don't want to filter out legit posts by accident. Many of our target audience uses HTML posts so blocking out HTML posts defeats the purpose of opening up a mailing list for bug-report purposes.
Anyway, I think Bill monitors the rejected posts and forwards them to the mailing list if it's legit anyway -- so anybody can go ahead and post bug reports to the mailing list without subscription as it is, without letting any spams get to the list. > Also, do NOT force replies to go to the list or not. > Decent mailers provide both reply-tosender and > reply-to-all (group reply) abilities; these must be > left distinct to be useful. This topic seems to come up from time to time. There are good arguments for both, so let's leave it the way it is since that's how we've been doing it and the majority of the people on this list are used to it. Anyway, if you really are using a decent mail reader then you can customize it to work the way you want it so it shouldn't matter to you, right? For our target audience that could be using a "lame" mail reader, we should provide them the default action that's the most frequent action for them, which is to reply back to the list on topics that started in the mailing list. I think Bill has always kept the target audience in mind in whatever decision he made with TuxPaint, which is what made it such a great program. I encourage us to continue doing the same. But I think it's great that you're bringing up these issues for us to think about. Thanks! -Mark On Wed, 10 Nov 2004, Albert Cahalan wrote: > On Wed, 2004-11-10 at 12:56, Bill Kendrick wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 09, 2004 at 09:40:18PM -0500, Albert Cahalan wrote: > > > Also, this isn't posted to this list because you've > > > blocked non-subscribers. I wish you wouldn't do that. > > > The [EMAIL PROTECTED] way is the right way. > > > > Well, if you want 95% spam on the list, sure, I can allow non-subscribers to > > post. :) > > I'm not seeing that on the [EMAIL PROTECTED] > mailing list. I think I get about 1 spam per day. > The list has been around for a while, and it has been > mentioned all over: freshmeat.net, the procps web site, > every release announcement, emails on linux-kernel, etc. > > The linux-kernel list gets a bit more, but not much. > Just a couple spams per day make it past the filters, > in a flood of 100 to 400 legitimate messages per day. > Dropping HTML mail eliminates most of the spam. > > The positive benefits of an open list are huge. > Bug reports can come in freely. > > Also, do NOT force replies to go to the list or not. > Decent mailers provide both reply-tosender and > reply-to-all (group reply) abilities; these must be > left distinct to be useful. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Tuxpaint-dev mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://tux4kids.net/mailman/listinfo/tuxpaint-dev -- Mark K. Kim AIM: markus kimius Homepage: http://www.cbreak.org/ Xanga: http://www.xanga.com/vindaci Friendster: http://www.friendster.com/user.php?uid=13046 PGP key fingerprint: 7324 BACA 53AD E504 A76E 5167 6822 94F0 F298 5DCE PGP key available on the homepage _______________________________________________ Tuxpaint-dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://tux4kids.net/mailman/listinfo/tuxpaint-dev
