Re: Closing the list to non-members!

Sam Steingold wrote:
> Marco Antoniotti wrote:
> | In any case Mailman can be set up to just dismiss messages from non-
> | members.
> 
> no, we do not want that.
> we want people to be able to communicate with us without having to
> subscribe to a mailing list.

I second closing the list to non-members.  The signal to noise ratio has
been terrible lately, which may be self-perpetuating if reasonable
people are unsubscribing from the list due to the spam.

For some lists it is indeed useful to allow non-members to post to
enable cross-posting.  I don't believe that is critical for this list
(as far as I can tell, no one has cross-posted on this list for at least
a year).

If someone wants to post without receiving messages for this list, that
person can simply subscribe to the list and turn off delivery.

Cheers,

-- Travis



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