On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 05:43:55PM -0800, Kenneth Porter wrote: > --On Wednesday, October 30, 2002 7:55 PM -0500 Duncan Findlay > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'd say most lists about free software are open like that. It's really > > a whole community thing. Many people like to browse the web archives > > and post only occasionally. Why shouldn't that be allowed? > > I'm on some lists where, to accomplish this, you're supposed to subscribe > and then change your settings to a kind of "vacation mode" where you don't > actually receive anything. > > The other objection to a closed list I've seen is that one might post from > multiple addresses, not just the subscribed one. This should only be a > problem if your post goes through a server that rewrites From lines. (Most > good mail clients let you create multiple "personalities" so you can sign > the From line with the right account.)
That's another point. I send mail to this list as [EMAIL PROTECTED], but receive it as [EMAIL PROTECTED] (mainly to avoid having list mail (unnecessarily) bog down master.debian.org too). Many of the Debian lists, I recieve as [EMAIL PROTECTED] so it doesn't go through my ISP's POP server (avoiding massive fetchmail runs, and overflowing mailboxes, etc). It'd be frustrating for me to subscribe my multiple personalities and switch them to vacation mode. I like the way it is now. Plus, we're here to provide support. Making the user receive a lot of e-mail from us before we do anything for them seems kinda ironic. -- Duncan Findlay ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: Influence the future of Java(TM) technology. Join the Java Community Process(SM) (JCP(SM)) program now. http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?sunm0004en _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
