On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 04:29:16AM -0700, Paul Makepeace wrote: >(I don't subscribe to the belief that software should be sufficiently >obscure/bureaucratic/enforce some protocol of interaction so as to act >as a barrier to entry for folk, as though the ability to send correctly >formatted email data has absolutely anything to do with their ability to >contribute to a list's content. To me this is absurd and illogical.)
It seems entirely logical to me. If you are unable to send a message to a specified address with a specified subject line, you are unlikely to be able to send a message to a mailing list, and will therefore not be contributing to the list's content. Now, if the list is also a web-forum, that's another matter, but I wasn't talking about those situations; nor was I considering announcement-lists rather than lists in which people are encouraged to participate (which I should perhaps have specified). Roger
