On 01/22/2002 11:44:21 AM Adam Olsen wrote: >> On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 06:33:55PM +0100, Oyvind A. Holm wrote: >> > Is there any good reasons why the Debian lists has to accept messages >> > from non-members? >> >> It gets posts from non-members, that's why. >> >> Debian[0] won't accept any solution that involves censoring users. >> That means you have to 0 false-hits. That rules out all the automatic >> tools people use. The only way I can think of to do this is allow >> subscribers and past posters through automatically, and flag the rest >> to be manually moderated. But this requires a group of volunteers to >> the moderation, and nothing will happen until there is such a group.
The obvious solution is continue to flood debian-curiosa with spam, etc, but create a debian-curiosa-subscribers-only. The mailling list s/w will only forward email to -subscribers-only if the from address matches a subscribers address. Then, people whom want to read "uncensored" (mostly spam) are free to read debian-curiosa, and the rest of the readers can read the debian-curiosa-subscribers-only list. I don't think this is part of standard functionality for most mailling list software... Another solution is allow only subscribers thru to debian-curiosa, and also repost absolutely everything to debian-curiosa-spam-spam-spam-morespam-please. Another solution is create a debian-curiosa-subscribers-only, moderate it to only repost only debian-curiosa subscriber posts, then subscribe debian-curiosa-subscribers to the main debian-curiosa list. This would change it from a censorship issue to a choice issue.
