From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sat Mar 5 17:51:19 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5A169DA9C9 for ; Sat, 5 Mar 2016 17:51:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from steve@sohara.org) Received: from uk1mail2513.mymailbank.co.uk (UK1MAIL2513-PERMANET.IE.mymailbank.co.uk [217.69.47.44]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33ABF33E for ; Sat, 5 Mar 2016 17:51:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from steve@sohara.org) Received: from smtp.lan.sohara.org (UnknownHost [88.151.27.41]) by uk1mail2513-d.mymailbank.co.uk with SMTP; Sat, 5 Mar 2016 17:50:47 +0000 Received: from [192.168.63.1] (helo=steve.lan.sohara.org) by smtp.lan.sohara.org with smtp (Exim 4.86 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1acGLr-0003hb-JE; Sat, 05 Mar 2016 17:50:51 +0000 Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2016 17:50:50 +0000 From: Steve O'Hara-Smith To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Polytropon Subject: Re: Span in the lists Message-Id: <20160305175050.d20adc148db2caa0f90e8c3a@sohara.org> In-Reply-To: <20160305180247.597ddf10.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <87egbqfpqc.fsf@mitoraj.siccegge.de> <20160304134618.16fc67d1@archlinux.localdomain> <20160304135317.662d1258@archlinux.localdomain> <56DA3149.7070808@gmail.com> <20160305180247.597ddf10.freebsd@edvax.de> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.4.3 (GTK+ 2.24.29; amd64-portbld-freebsd10.1) X-Clacks-Overhead: "GNU Terry Pratchett" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 05 Mar 2016 17:51:19 -0000 On Sat, 5 Mar 2016 18:02:47 +0100 Polytropon wrote: > Are there maybe other situations where "no registration required" is > an important feature to have? Pure and simple ease of use, there are a lot of FreeBSD mailing lists, some of them very specialised. If I have a question or report appropriate to one of those then with the current conventions I can pop a mail to the list, expect to see the replies (reply to all is the convention) and not be bothered with anything else on the list but the one thing that drove me to seek contact with specialists. Going the other waY I'd have to susbcribe to the list, do the validation dance, send my question, see answers and all the other list traffic and eventually I'd have to unsubscribe. It's not a lot of work - but it's a big multiplier on sending a single email - especially if the reply is "try the guys in $otherlist". The current system is maximally convenient for the person who wants one-off access to experts. To me that seems to be the correct model for support mailing lists. Spam is the risk - and has been noted the incidence is low. I presume there are some very good spam filters on the list. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith