Datatude wrote:
Harold Fuchs wrote:
The "moderated" in the subject line does mean that the user is not
subscribed but *not* all messages from unsubscribed users carry it.
The only guaranteed way to detect a message from a non-subscribed
user is to
look at the "Delivered-To" headers. If and only if there is a
"Delivered-To:
moderator" header then the sender is unsubscribed.
Thank you for that definitive explanation! In my not-so-humble opinion
(as a list owner myself) it is a grevious mistake to allow
unsubscribed folk to post their Q's to a list. This results in folks
donating their valuable time and brainpower to answer questions,
on-list, and the querent will not see the answer. Meaning people's
time is being wasted. And the user who needed help feels unsupported.
Which does not help, and may even detract from, the reputation of the
software being supported on the list.
kazar
This has been discussed on many occasions on this list. There are valid
arguments pro and con. The argument against requiring someone to
subscribe to the list to post is that often they just want an answer to
a reasonably simple question; to inflict the hundreds of postings a week
on them that this list generates, to get their question answered, might
not be a good thing either. What generally happens is that the person
answering the question of an unsubscribed poster will cc that person on
the reply. Then, the person gets an answer without being bombarded with
zillions of messages that they might not care about nor understand.
I'm not saying this is an ideal situation -- just describing what often
happens.
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