If the "you can't post on this list until you are a member"
message is polite enough, and possibly offers an alternative
(like sending mail to CY!), then I think we could have
a simpler solution than having us read some open forum.
Even if Stavros' ISP gets the spam out, it is getting here...
Stavros Macrakis wrote:
>>I thought there was a way of forbidding posting to the list
>>except if the sender was a member of the list.
>>
>>
>
>I agree. But as someone pointed out, we do regularly get new users with
>queries about Maxima, and we don't want to discourage them.
>
>I don't know what mailing list software is currently being used (and
>apparently it is hard to administer because it is at Utexas), but it
>should be possible to have a compromise policy: registered users can
>post without moderation, but mail from unregistered people gets
>moderated. Surely that is a standard policy setting for *some* mailing
>list software. Now it's just a "small matter of implementation".
>
> -s
>
>PS As it happens, I have seen zero spam from the Maxima list recently.
>(Though there was some a couple of months ago.) Perhaps my ISP's spam
>filter is effective?
>
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