On Fri, Jun 04, 2010 at 11:12:04AM -0400, Barry Warsaw wrote: > On Jun 04, 2010, at 11:20 AM, Ian Eiloart wrote: > >These days, I guess that requiring approval for membership should be the > >default, so that should be part of any shipping style. > > Is it? Aren't most open source discussion lists generally open membership > (perhaps with initial moderation)?
Are we (as a community) forgetting who the majority of users/admins who need "more help than normal" are? I would have thought more "real-world" users of Mailman, would be the sort of things we see questions being asked about on mailman-users; newsletters, announcement lists, that sort of thing, rather than what we, as geeks are au fait with. I'm more of the mould that maybe we should make things a little easier for those who can't read source-code, who need something up and running quickly and without fuss; I'm not quite sure I go as far as Ian, in requiring approval, but certainly to require confirmation, and I might suggest, moderation bit being set, too. (most of *my* 400 odd lists are for non-geeks; a majority of them are open-subscription, without moderation, but I vaguely keep an eye on the amounts of mail going to each list; there's an element of trust, and vigorous spam-filtering going on before mail gets to Mailman). -- If we couldn't laugh at things that didn't make sense, we couldn't react to a lot of the world around us. (Calvin and Hobbes) _______________________________________________ Mailman-Developers mailing list Mailman-Developers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-developers Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-developers%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-developers/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9
