[ILUG] New Mailing List Motion

[John Madden]

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On (08/11/06 07:44), Kae Verens said:
> David Golden wrote:
> >... probably a way to hack mailman to have a per-subscriber option
> >as to whether or not non-subscriber mails should be delivered to
> >the subscriber in question ...
> >  
> 
> woah there - that's applying the entirely wrong solution to the problem. 
> you would then end up with a lot of confusion, where some people would 
> be replying to emails that other people never saw the originals of.
> 
The solution isn't to cut out the initial post that others are replying 
to either. And the confusion will come from the user's own settings, and
their wish to not receive non-subscriber posts. The other option is, of
course, to use a decent spam filter configured to your personal setup
(which I do, and see no ILUG spam, apart from what's in my spam folder).

I think the above is a good idea, because at least then the
"subscriber-post only" gang can set their preferences as such, and the
rest can accept everything. Then the work doesn't fall to just Colm, and
further requests for subscriber-only posting can be met with "Change
your receiving options".

- -- 
John Madden -- john at jmadden.eu
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