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

[Naveen Venugopal]

i will put my hands up too. gonna feel good without spams...

----- Original Message -----
From: Neill Cox <neill.cox at ingenious.com.au>
Date: Saturday, July 18, 2009 2:00 pm
Subject: Re: [clug] change to non-member posting to CLUG list
To: tridge at samba.org
Cc: mbp at samba.org, linux at lists.samba.org, tpot at samba.org

> 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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