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Stefan Reichör wrote:
| Stefan Reichör <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
|
|>> this "solution" is worse than the problem.
|>> a project should maintain an open mailing list (or another open channel)
|>> where users can report issues without having to subscribe to a
mailing list.
|>> E.g., the CLISP project has a developer list clisp-devel
|>> (subscriber-only) and a user clisp-list (open list) where anyone can
|>> post. we do get spam, but aggressive filtering has kept it to a minimum.
|>>
|>> by closing the mailing list you are cutting off many users who (like I
|>> do) read the list on gmane without subscribing. this is a very bad idea.
|> I understand this position, since I use also gmane for many groups I
|> read. I have also experienced the problem, that posting via gmane is
|> not possible for such groups.
| I experimented with the Hold setting.
| I get a mail when a non-member posts to dvc-dev, and I can easily
approve the message.
|
| Sam, could you also test, if this setting works for you?

this setting certainly does work for me, but it means that _you_ will
have to manually approve all non-subscriber messages.
in my experience this is too much of a burden on a package maintainer,
but if it works for _you_, I am happy.

Thanks.
Sam.

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