"David N. Welton" wrote: > > [ This discussion is better suited to debian-project, and you can > quote me publically on what I state below ] > > The answer is to moderate the list, as the Apache Software Foundations > successfully does. > > 1) by default, subscribed addresses can post. > > 2) not subscribed posters go to a human moderator or moderators who > can: > [...]
Pablo Lorenzzoni wrote: > > Although a members-only list is a very good solution for spam, I > don't think it's the best for Debian project, since the -user-* lists > are used for support as well. Maybe a possible solution is making non > -user-* lists members-only. I don't know.... Alexander Zangerl wrote: > > if somebody wants to use a mailinglist, why is it unreasonable to expect > him or her to subscribe to that mailinglist first? subscription is not > a thing that can't be undone easily... > I posted a mail on the subject to -project last week and the week before : http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2002/debian-project-200202/msg00046.html http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2002/debian-project-200203/msg00003.html and I got no answer. I think it is an important problem and I invite all those who feel we have to do something to read my proposition. I tried to take into account all the problems mentionned above and I think we could reduce not only the spam traffic but also the userFAQ traffic. Thanks in advance for your feed-back, Nico. PS: Feel free to quote me out of this list. -- Nicolas SABOURET LIMSI-CNRS, BP133, 91403 Orsay, France http://www.limsi.fr/Individu/nico
