On 03/ 4/10 11:40 AM, Danek Duvall wrote: > Shawn Walker wrote: > >> On 03/ 4/10 11:27 AM, Garrett D'Amore wrote: >> ... >>> 1) You can't send to on-discuss@ unless you're subscribed. In the past, >>> many of these messages from me bounced. I suspect that's true for others >>> as well. To fix this, you need to either require all ON contributors to >>> subscribe to ON discuss, or fix the draconian mailing list moderation >>> policy on on-discuss at . >> >> Automatically accepting email from unsubscribed members really isn't >> safe -- there's way too much spam that still gets through the >> filters. >> >> I help moderate pkg-discuss; and believe me, you do not want just >> anyone to be able to get through and attempting to base that on >> *[email protected] addresses doesn't work either. Ask Elaine about that... > > Still, putting the messages into the moderation queue would be far > friendlier than bouncing them outright. The pkg-discuss moderation duties > are quite small, and the normal list traffic there is pretty sizeable. I > imagine moderating on-discuss wouldn't be a huge burden.
Sorry, I didn't meant to imply that it should automatically bounce messages. I agree that moderation is probably the right step. Cheers, -- Shawn Walker
