From: Christian Weisgerber (naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de)
Date: Mon Apr 26 1999 - 19:32:19 MDT
Danny Yavuzkurt <ady1@psu.edu> wrote:
> And please.. someone restrict the list posting to members of the list!
I wouldn't have any quibble with that wording, however, I suspect you
might really mean to restrict posting to *addresses* subscribed to the
list, which is an entirely different thing.
> What possible reason could there be for allowing unrestricted posting?...
Legitimate subscribers who post from behind mail/news gateways or have
several mail addresses and would prefer to be able to submit messages
from all of them?
This can be solved with an additional contributors list (trivial to set
up with Majordomo, don't know about other list engines), although from
my limited experience in running such a set-up it still catches many
more inattentive subscribers than spammers. Simply limiting posting
rights to subscribed addresses, as practiced by some lists, is certainly
ill-conceived.
--
Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de
100+ SF Book Reviews: <URL:http://home.pages.de/~naddy/reviews/>
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