Michael Marsh wrote:
Because not every user who has a question wants to agree to receive
hundreds of email messages a day as the price.
Vacation. Pof, no emails. Imagine that.
> Because a community
that accepts non-subscribed mail to its lists is "friendlier" than one
that doesn't.
No it's not. It's more neglegent but not friendlier. People's responses
make it friendlier.
> Because subscribing to the list *is* a barrier, and
*will* prevent a good number of people from asking their questions.
No, it isn't. It's called being responsible.
Open posting is *good*. Yes, I get spam because of it,
These two statements are contrary. Open posting is *BAD*.
> but most of that is caught by Gmail's spam filter.
Irrelevant. It makes the list a ready-made spam vector. Unlike you I
get a good portion of my spam through the list. What makes it so incidious is
that I have to search out that spam so as not to poison my filters.
Considering I don't find it a woefully heavy burden to scan headers and delete
subjects that aren't relevant to me (oh, the horror, about 5m a *day* on this
oh so busy list) It makes it harder on me and weakens my own defense against spam.
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