Re: [Gnu-arch-users] The name of this mailing list is misleading

[Thomas Lord]

    > From: Miles Bader <address@hidden>

    > Why?  If you're worried about spam, other gnu lists with "open
    > posting" (that is, almost all of them) seem to have no spam to
    > speak of.

Yet the help list has already received spam.


    > It's amazingly infuriating as a user if you post a bug report or
    > whatever, and get back a "your message was rejected/held because
    > you're not a subscriber" (for gnu lists, these essentially seem
    > the to be the same -- either the non-subcriber moderation
    > mechanism is broken, or the moderators [whoever they are] are
    > slacking off something awful).


I'm not so sure it is justifiably amazingly infuriating since the work
arounds are so plentiful and simple.

As a practical matter, the current arrangement (subscriber only) seems
to work well.  At least, in the N years that arrangement has been in
place, the actual complaints have been few and minor.

I have made a note to see if I can set non-subscriber messages to be
outright rejected since, as you note, the supposed moderation of them
is essentially a polite fiction.

-t