Hi Jean; I've been following this thread for some while. I really applaud your intentions and efforts with regards to this mailing list management; your dedication is impressive and appreciated.
Ken Wolcott On Wed, Feb 22, 2023 at 2:25 PM Jean Abou Samra <j...@abou-samra.fr> wrote: > > Le mardi 21 février 2023 à 23:36 +0100, Jean Abou Samra a écrit : > > 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. > > An update on this: > > It turned out to be a really bad idea. Fortunately, Bob Proulx, an admin on > GNU's Mailman server, noticed the change and explained why. > > The problem is backscatter. If a spammer sends a spam while making it look > like it comes from a real address that is not subscribed to the list, the > person this real address belongs to receives an automated message from the > list, which is viewed as unsolicited. Not only is that bad for this person, > but it leads to DNS blacklisting for lists.gnu.org, which affects all GNU > lists badly. > > I apologize for this; I didn't realize this implication at all. The change > has been rolled back and things will just remain as they were before. Thank > you Bob! > > Jean
