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Date:      Thu, 4 Jan 2001 09:04:01 -0400 (AST)
From:      The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>
To:        Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org>
Cc:        Suresh Ramasubramanian <mallet@efn.org>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: If you come only once, you've been cheated.
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.31.0101040900320.368-100000@thelab.hub.org>
In-Reply-To: <20010104101456.A77019@mithrandr.moria.org>

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On Thu, 4 Jan 2001, Neil Blakey-Milner wrote:

> On Thu 2001-01-04 (12:03), Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
> > lolly@biperson.com rearranged electrons thusly:
> >
> > > Our motto: More tail for less money.
> >
> > 8< spam
> >
> > is this list open for all to post? if so, would the admin please make it members only?
> > larts underway from my side at least
>
> It can't be a closed list.  Think about it - it is for people who have
> questions.  The people who are subscribed are interested in answering
> questions, or seeing questions and answers.

Odd, every one of the PostgreSQL mailing lists are closed lists and are
reasonably high traffic ... we even have a bi-directional news<->mail
gateway ...

We run Majordomo2 over here, which has subscription options, one of which
is a -nomail option that allows someone to subscribe from an address, but
not receive email from the list to it ... so they can post from news and
it will get to the list, or post from a different adddress they receive
from ...

It does require someone to actually approve messages for those that aren't
subscribed, but, again, with Mj2, there is a concept of multiple owners,
so you could have two moderators assigned to a list making sure that no
spam gets through, if the load warranted it ...




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