On Sat, Dec 18, 1999 at 11:26:32AM -0200, Rogerio Brito wrote:
> On Dec 17 1999, Andy Bradford wrote:
> > How did this email creep in? Is the list setup to allow posts from
> > non-subscribers?
>
> That's the "correct" way to setup a mailing list which
> provides support for a program -- people will usually just
> send bug reports or ask about unexpected behaviour without
> having to go thru the entire subscribe, send the message, wait
> for responses, unsubscribe cycle.
>
> This is (or, actually, should be) usually the case for open
> source program mailing lists. The drawback is that you get
> spam once in a while...
>
> On the other hand, if your mailing list is just, say, a music
> mailing list, then there's just no need for keeping it open.
If you mean 'open' as opposed to 'closed', where 'closed' says "don't accept
mail with From-addresses that are not on the list", I wholeheartedly disagree.
The address I post from at home ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is different from
my subscribed address ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). If this list were
'closed' as defined above, I wouldn't be able to post.
Greetz, Peter.
--
Peter van Dijk - student/sysadmin/ircoper/womanizer/pretending coder
|
| 'C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot;
| C++ makes it harder, but when you do it blows your whole leg off.'
| Bjarne Stroustrup, Inventor of C++
