Re: Policy for posts from non-members

[William Rehwinkel]

I think this is a good idea, and I would pick either silently rejecting 
unsubscribed messages or automatically replying with the message that 
Jean wrote (both options would happen automatically with no admin input 
to be clear). Even though mailing lists have been around for a long 
time, as others have posted here, so you would expect newcomers to know 
the expectation to subscribe, I think that as the years go by there are 
more and more people who are not familiar with how mailing lists 
operate, such as younger people who are more used to things like 
discord, google groups or other social media.


On 2/21/23 17:36, Jean Abou Samra wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've not been an admin of this list for very long, yet I'm already weary 
> of telling people who post without being subscribed to the list that 
> they should subscribe in order to avoid each of their messages being 
> manually approved. I wonder what you (meaning everyone, but especially 
> Mark, the other admin) would think about changing the list configuration 
> to reject post from non-members instead of holding them on moderation, 
> with a message such as
>
> “Welcome to the lilypond-user mailing list. We apologize, but in order 
> to prevent spam, we need you to subscribe to the list before you post. 
> Please fill out the subscription form on 
> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user 
> <https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user>.
>
> Once you are subscribed, you will receive all posts to the list, so you 
> can help out other people as well. However, if you only wish to interact 
> with this list infrequently, you may disable mail subscription in your 
> membership preferences after you have subscribed.
>
> If you believe you are already subscribed to the list, it probably means 
> that you accidentally posted from a different email address than the one 
> you are subscribed with.
>
> If you have any question or encounter problems, feel free to contact the 
> list admins at lilypond-user-owner@gnu.org”
>
> On the plus side, this means that instead of delaying the message until 
> Mark or me looks at it, the feedback will come instantly.
>
> Jean

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