I think Simon's suggestion is a good idea - we don't miss anything except for some possible delay and most of us will not get spam. Jason's point around optimising for no threat is a good one too.
I'm in favour of setting non-members to moderated with a few folks willing to check the queue regularly - I'm on that list (I'd volunteer to check) but I don't have the established credentials that someone like Red or Martin (or most of you) have. A On Wed, 23 Feb 2022 at 21:58, Jason Chu <xen...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am curious how many non-subscribers we have sending email to the ML. Are > we trying to optimize for a situation that doesn't actually exist, thus > causing a worse experience for all subscribers? > > On Wed, Feb 23, 2022 at 12:16 PM Simon Michael <si...@joyful.com> wrote: > >> On 2/23/22 4:49 AM, Alan H wrote: >> > I'm also ok with the >> > list only being open to subscribers (for posting) I'm not sure that >> > would reduce the participation significantly and it would likely dent >> > the spam. >> > Thoughts? >> >> You don't have to reject non-subscribers' messages entirely; you can >> have them be moderated. (And when approving such a message, you can mark >> that sender as always approved for the future, even as a non-subscriber, >> IIRC.) >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Beancount" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to beancount+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/sv64mi%2411kd%241%40ciao.gmane.io >> . >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "Beancount" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/beancount/6ZNtnIV43KA/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > beancount+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/CAFFHUgsBiU4DsXvcSWgw-SKDj-WE4C8HtvJrXf5PKtXont5B0Q%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/CAFFHUgsBiU4DsXvcSWgw-SKDj-WE4C8HtvJrXf5PKtXont5B0Q%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- a l a n a t p o l y p h a s e d o t c a -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Beancount" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to beancount+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/CAB5fSsosAbpMP0CmG4%3D1dKPVty%2Bu5L51bCM2_N8wO2M8AjY6iA%40mail.gmail.com.