[clug] change to non-member posting to CLUG list

[Neill Cox]

I'll put my hand up too

Cheers,
Neill

On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 11:54 AM, <tridge at samba.org> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I know this debate has come up before, and I know it is a hot
> topic.
>
> Because of the open posting policy we have had on some lists,
> including this one, samba.org has been reported to some upstream
> blacklists. Our ISP has asked us to fix the problem and we must
> respond. We have had Spamassassin filtering mail on all lists for a
> long time, but it has not been sufficient.
>
> So I have now changed the policy to only allow member posting. Don't
> despair though, the policy we will use is that if a non-member posts
> to the list then the moderators are notified, and if the posting is
> not spam then the non-members email address will be added to the
> auto-accept list from then on.
>
> This means a higher load on the list moderators, so if anyone else
> wants to volunteer to be a moderator for this list then please let me
> know. We don't want dozens of people, but a couple more would be OK.
>
> Cheers, Tridge
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