Re: Policy for posts from non-members

[Mark Knoop]

At 12:34 on 22 Feb 2023, Jean Abou Samra wrote:
>> I've said this already, and I'm happy to say this again: To me, the
>> LilyPond community is likely the most friendly, helpful place I've
>> ever encountered on "the internet". We shouldn't erect too high a
>> barrier to entering it, and for people who are not familiar (e.g.)
>> with automatic e-mail filtering/sorting rules etc., I think
>> subscribing to an e-mail list does look like a barrier: We should
>> advertise doing it, but not force people contacting us for the first
>> time to do it.

> So you want to keep the possibility to post while not being
> subscribed, but make the messages that I'm manually sending now be
> sent automatically?

> At first, I thought this wasn't possible, but it actually appears
> possible (the configuration for the held message notice text is just
> in a completely different place than the configuration for the
> rejection notice text in the Mailman 2 UI...). That would be fine with
> me as well. Mark, WDYT?

Absolutely - this sounds ideal if it's possible.

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Mark Knoop