Kern Sibbald wrote:
My vote goes to a subscribers only list. On the OpenOffice.org lists I can understand people don't even want to be subscribed for a day or two, but this list is relatively low volume. People can always unsubscribe when their problem is solved, but in general it's good 'to stay in touch'. Especially for such crucially important software as a backup solution.Hello,
Notwithstanding my previous remarks about spam, I have noticed that there is more and more on this list. After thinking about it for a while, I can implement a script that automatically rejects all email by nonsubscribed users (it also rejects all other email held for administrative approval).
So, what I am suggesting as a *possibility* is:
- Modify the bacula-users (and probably bacula-devel) list to be subscriber only.
- Nightly purge all email held for administrative approval -- i.e. all emails from nonsubscribers. This would be done "blindly" by a script.
What I don't like about this is that some users (such as myself) don't want to subscribe to lists even to get help, so their email will probably be lost, or at best, they will be confused and frustrated. In a sense, it is reducing our service ... At the current levels, the spam does not really bother me, but I can understand that it does bother a good number of you, so I have no problem changing the list as noted above.
Before embarking on this change, I would appreciate some feedback from those who are concerned -- you.
While we're at it. It would be nice to have the reply-to field set to the list where the mail came from and not to the person who sent the mail. Even though I switched to a mail client that has a send to all button, I constantly forget that I have to press on that one to get mail delivered correctly for this list.
Jo
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