On 4/14/14, 8:30 AM, "Willy Tarreau" <w...@1wt.eu> wrote:
>On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 06:14:09PM -0700, Ian Scott wrote: >> On 04/07/2014 07:47 AM, Juan Jimenez wrote: >> >Is there a reason this list allows anyone to post messages? The amount >>of >> >spam on this list is astounding. This is 2014, folks. The methods to >> >prevent this became good practice long, long ago. >> >> I agree, this is pretty ridiculous. The list should be only open to >> posting from subscribers. > >What is ridiculous are lists which send messages back to people who are >brought to a conversation and which force them to subscribe before posting >a response to kindly offer assistance to help someone. > >This list, as a number of other opensource projects lists, is open, which >means that *nobody* is forced to subscribe to contribute. If you don't >subscribe, you don't receive any spam. > >So I strongly urge you to unsubscribe to save 20 or so spams a week you >can >get here. I'm used to get something between 10 and 100 a day on other >higher >volume lists and it's not a problem, so surely dealing with 20 a week is >OK. > >Willy Actually, no, it¹s not. Like most people who subscribe, I do so because I want to follow the discussions on the product and have more than a passing interest in it, especially since the current dev version addresses things that are needed to be useful in the configuration we are supporting. Subscribe/Unsubscribe is a simple process in virtually all mailing lists now. Like I said, this is 2014Š Juan
