That's a common sense approach. And your auto-reply is very courteous. dB
On Tue, Feb 21, 2023, 5:37 PM Jean Abou Samra <j...@abou-samra.fr> wrote: > Hi, > > I've not been an admin of this list for very long, yet I'm already weary > of telling people who post without being subscribed to the list that they > should subscribe in order to avoid each of their messages being manually > approved. I wonder what you (meaning everyone, but especially Mark, the > other admin) would think about changing the list configuration to reject > post from non-members instead of holding them on moderation, with a message > such as > > “Welcome to the lilypond-user mailing list. We apologize, but in order to > prevent spam, we need you to subscribe to the list before you post. Please > fill out the subscription form on > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user. > > Once you are subscribed, you will receive all posts to the list, so you > can help out other people as well. However, if you only wish to interact > with this list infrequently, you may disable mail subscription in your > membership preferences after you have subscribed. > > If you believe you are already subscribed to the list, it probably means > that you accidentally posted from a different email address than the one > you are subscribed with. > > If you have any question or encounter problems, feel free to contact the > list admins at lilypond-user-ow...@gnu.org” > > On the plus side, this means that instead of delaying the message until > Mark or me looks at it, the feedback will come instantly. > > Jean >
