Garrett D'Amore wrote: > Bounced messages are *painful* to anyone who has to endure them. I > can't tell you how many times I've been faced with a choice to either > > a) figure out which address I can actually send from, or > b) just give up and decide that the reply I was sending only needed > to go to the sender, or > c) ask someone who is a member of the list to forward the message to me
I live with the fact that I have to subscribe to lists I want to post to. This is a very common practice for mailing lists to control unwanted postings, and widely accepted. I've also been the recipient of many bounced messages from opensolaris.org mailing lists (which is why I'm the member of so many). The only reason that this is perceived as an issue is because these mailing lists are all hosted at the same location and are all essentially for the same community. I'll put it differently, I don't believe that trying to enforce list moderation policy is the correct way to deal with the issue of OpenSolaris community members being able to post to os.org mailing lists. Rather, I believe the correct solution is to make it easier for legitimate community members to post to the mailing lists based on the grants database. > Remember, many list owners are not "experienced" mailing list > administrators, and as such, the pitfalls of this configuration may not > be readily apparent. > > At a minimum, I think there should be a recommendation made to list > owners against this configuration. I'm all for education, but I suspect that many of the individuals that have chosen auto-reject or auto-discard did so with the knowledge of exactly what that meant. Cheers, -- Shawn Walker
