[ILUG] Re: Your message to ILUG awaits moderator approval

[Brian Foster]

  | From: ilug-bounces at linux.ie
  | Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2006 06:31:23 +0000
  | X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5
  | List-Id: Irish Linux Users' Group <ilug.linux.ie>
  | 
  | Your mail to 'ILUG' with the subject  [ ... ]
  | Is being held until the list moderator can review it for approval.
  | 
  | The reason it is being held:
  | 
  |     Post by non-member to a members-only list
  | 
  | Either the message will get posted to the list, or you will receive
  | notification of the moderator's decision.  If you would like to cancel
  | this posting, please visit the following URL:  [ ... ]

 the new anti-spam system doesn't like me (I think
 I know why, and that is NOT what this posting is
 about).  above is the autoreply I got.  please note
 it is Highly Misleading:  ILUG is not a members-only
 list.  posts by non-subscribers are welcome, it's
 just now the (first?) such post is human-filtered
 as an anti-spam measure.

 I suggest updating the message to better reflect
 ILUG's policy.  e.g. (this is off the top-of-my-head
 and so can almost certainly be improved, corrected,
 and clarified, but it should illustrate the point):

    [ ... ]
    The reason it is being held:
    
        First post by non-subscriber to the list
    
    Either the message will get posted to the list, or you will receive
    notification of the moderator's decision.  If the message is posted,
    future messages from this same account will not be further delayed
    for moderation.  The Irish Linux Users Group encourages questions
    about Linux and Open Source software from non-subscribers, and also
    encourages non-subscribers to subscribe  [ ... and so on ... ]

cheers!
	-blf-
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