Re: Policy for posts from non-members

[Mark Knoop]

At 23:36 on 21 Feb 2023, 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

Thanks Jean, I support this proposal.


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Mark Knoop