[RFC] Reduce SPAM posts by making samba-technical members-only to post

[Volker Lendecke]

On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 11:50:30PM +1000, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> > We run the samba list like this.  I know everyone is getting
> > tired on the SPAM posts polluting their INBOX and the list
> > archives.  I'd like to set the list to hold all non-member posts
> > for moderation.  Comments?
> 
> I used to really favour having it open, particularly as the closed
> mailing list often was a sign of a closed development community (and
> made cross-posting, say with OpenLDAP, more difficult). 

Can't this be partially solved by a nice and friendly
message in reply to the non-subscriber post?

Volker
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