Re: Mailing list policy

["Perry E. Metzger" <perry at wasabisystems.com>]

Lloyd Wood <l.wood at eim.surrey.ac.uk> writes:
> In the IETF, there's often reason to cross-post to WG lists that you
> aren't subscribed to, when discussion veers that way. The IESG
> does that a lot, and 'subscriber only' policies will hold up IESG
> business as a result.

When you are the maintainer of a list, you can approve postings that
get held up because of non-subscriber origins. I do this
routinely. Works just fine.

If need be, we can just have as policy that the IESG and several other
key addresses are always on the "auto-approve" list. Majordomo and
other packages make it easy to do that.

> If spam in general bothers you, install some mail filters to protect
> your sensitive eyes.

It is easiest to filter spam through mechanisms like non-subscriber
blocks and such. Trying to filter it when it gets to your mailbox is
much harder.

> > > but will stop the bulk of the spammers.
> > 
> > I've run a lot of lists that way, including some IETF mailing lists,
> > and it has worked out fine. It stops most spam but does not
> > inconvenience most subscribers.
> 
> Quite a few IETFers have more than one email address.

Which is why Majordomo lets you have a seperate list of addresses that
can post but don't get the mail. Works beautifully.

Perry

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