On Wed, Mar 08, 2000 at 03:28:37PM -0500, Joe Block wrote: > Jules Bean wrote: > > > > On Wed, Mar 08, 2000 at 10:45:07AM +0100, Nils Jeppe wrote: > > > On Wed, 8 Mar 2000, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: > > > > > > > > Can we please close the list from non-member submissions? > > > > > > > > NO! > > > > I, like many users of Debian, post from different mail addresses. Lists > > > > which are closed that way are really painful. > > So sign on with multiple addresses and set all but one nomail. It's > ludicrous to subject everyone to spam just to make things convenient for > a minority of users, especially if a fix exists that only those people > affected by the spamblock will have to implement.
[meta: this question is inappropriate for this list, but I can't resist answering. Maybe we need a debian lists FAQ] There are a variety of perfectly valid reasons to post to a list you aren't subscribed to. From time to time, interested members of the free software community cc: an email to debian-devel because they want to alert us to some issue which is relevant. I very, very rarely get spam through -devel (or any debian list) and I don't have a problem with the current system. If spam is too much, then the solution, I suggest is to use the various blocking lists (maybe we do) and just possibly, in extremis, require explicit addressing as I suggested earlier. Jules -- Jules Bean | Any sufficiently advanced [EMAIL PROTECTED],jellybean.co.uk} | technology is indistinguishable [EMAIL PROTECTED] | from a perl script
