On Wed, Mar 08, 2000 at 10:55:01PM +0000, Jules Bean wrote: > > > > > > Can we please close the list from non-member submissions? > > > > > NO! > > > > > I, like many users of Debian, post from different mail addresses. Lists which are closed that way are really painful. > > So sign on with multiple addresses and set all but one nomail. It's > > ludicrous to subject everyone to spam just to make things convenient for > > a minority of users, especially if a fix exists that only those people > > affected by the spamblock will have to implement. > > [meta: this question is inappropriate for this list, but I can't > resist answering. Maybe we need a debian lists FAQ] > > There are a variety of perfectly valid reasons to post to a list you > aren't subscribed to. From time to time, interested members of the > free software community cc: an email to debian-devel because they want > to alert us to some issue which is relevant. *nod vigorously* > I very, very rarely get spam through -devel (or any debian list) and I > don't have a problem with the current system. If spam is too much, > then the solution, I suggest is to use the various blocking lists > (maybe we do) and just possibly, in extremis, require explicit > addressing as I suggested earlier. I guess you are not subscribed to debian-user-spanish. We get 1 or 2 daily. The rules described above, no Bcc: and limiting the to: addresses to 10 should work with us. None of the spam we get there has the debian-user-spanish@lists.debian.org header. There was a flame-thread about the convenience of closing the list to only-members, but I think that's a bad idea for the reasons you explain above. Now, can these rules be applied? We _really_ need them at the spanish list. Thanks Jordi -- Jordi Mallach Pérez || jordi@pusa.informat.uv.es || Rediscovering Freedom, ka Oskuro in RL-MUD || jordi@sindominio.net || Using Debian GNU/Linux http://sindominio.net GnuPG public information: pub 1024D/917A225E telnet pusa.uv.es 23 73ED 4244 FD43 5886 20AC 2644 2584 94BA 917A 225E
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