[linux-audio-dev] Should the list be members-only?

[Robert Jonsson]

Thursday 14 August 2003 09:12 skrev Paul Winkler:
> Hi folks, your friendly temporary list-admin here.
> (Joern's on vacation and I'm filling in.)
>
> We seem to be getting quite a lot of spam lately.
> Currently the list is "open" - non-members can post.
>
> I'd like to take an informal poll:
>
>   Should the LAD list remain totally open, or should
>   non-member postings require moderator approval?

There is some crossposting occuring that, atleast sometimes, is worth while. 
If the list is closed this won't be possible if not all senders are members 
of all the mailinglists, and that is hardly the purpose.

I wondered a while ago, if it would be possible to do some sort of 
mailinglist-ring thingy.
The purpose being to keep a central repository of ALL subscribers, to be able 
to allow crossposting. I have no idea whether the mailinglist softwares 
support anything like this...

/Robert

>
> I should point out that the LAU list requires approval
> for non-member postings, and it seems to be no problem
> in my very-limited experience managing the lists:
> I check the pending-approval queue at least once a day, find
> nothing but spam, and throw it away. Approving a legit non-member
> posting would be trivially easy.