-1 on changing the list policy. I read and post to all of the public lists through Gmane, which won't work if the policy is changed.
I rarely see spam get through list either (unless Gmane is filtering it all out for me), so I fail to see the problem from that point of view. -Casey On Wed, 16 Jun 2004 21:24:07 -0400 "Tim Peters" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Over on the zope and zope-dev lists, there's currently agitation to > make them members-only mailing lists. The point is that spam could > not get thru then (unless posted by a member). > > What would zodb-dev members like? > > Posting by a list member would not be affected, unless you attempted > to send a message from an email account other than one you subscribed > with. In the latter case, your message would be bounced back to you. > > You could worm around that by subscribing to zodb-dev with that > address too, then going to your list membership page on the web and > checking the box to suspend email delivery on that account. Then you > could post using that account too, but wouldn't also get zodb-dev > email on that account. > > I'm the list admin for zodb-dev, and don't have a preference. If you > do, and it's strong enough to scream it, shout. The loudest screamer > will win<wink>. By default, I won't change the current policy (anyone > can post here, member or not). _______________________________________________ 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 )