I agreed with everything you said , listar has a vecation mode , but
beside that has a special flag for users to accept messages so you can
actually be part of a mailing list and being able to send withount
accepting. so we can put a web interface and make sure that the people who
send mail are actualy subscribed.
Ely Levy
System group
Hebrew University
Jerusalem Israel
On Wed, 5 Jan 2000, Herouth Maoz wrote:
| At 19:07 +0200 5/1/2000, Moran wrote:
| >but, if i dont want stay in the mailing list and you will block access for
| >who isnt in the mailing-list we actually didnt do anything by having
| >newsgroup.
|
| Actually, what you describe is easily solvable in two ways - speaking as an
| experienced list manager (of another list, naturally).
|
| If you don't want to get the e-mail but you want to browse the messages
| that were in the list today, you can use the list's archive. It's better to
| have a nice archive with good interface, of course, but most web-based
| archives are good enough.
|
| Otherwise, if you want to have the list and post from time to time, there
| are a few possible solutions.
|
| (1) Be subscribed to the list, but put yourself in suspended mode.
| Most list servers have a way for a subscriber to suspend himself
| or herself. The original reason is to enable people to go on
| vacation without the whole procedure of unsubscribing and
| re-subscribing. However, this mode normally allows you to post
| to the list without actually receiving the messages. So you can
| read it on the archive or on a one-way newsgroup, but still
| have your posting privileges.
|
| (2) The Postgres mailing lists, if I'm not mistaken, have a special
| address, which is not an actual list, where you subscribe
| yourself, and it allows you to post on any of their lists. This
| usually prevents casual spammers. This requires that the list
| server will have this capability, of course.
|
| Personally, I would prefer that the lists I'm on will not be on usenet. At
| least, not on the mainstream servers. Usenet is the number one spot for
| harvesting addresses for spam. Right now, I get less than one spam per day,
| without any special procmail filtering. I'd like to keep it that way.
|
| Herouth
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