Reason for current policy, was Re: [linux-audio-dev] Should the list be members-only?

Frank Barknecht fbar at footils.org
Thu Aug 14 11:11:00 UTC 2003


Hallo,
Paul Winkler hat gesagt: // Paul Winkler wrote:

> One more bit of information... I'm not sure if everybody knows that
> there was a good reason the list policy was set to open.
[...]

Without saying my opinion (which is ambivalent, because I use
spamassassin and often don't see the spam coming through) I'd like to
make a point that a poll on this list will only get responses from
members of the list. A non-regular poster will of course probably not
speak up now to keep the list open. 

I am on a lot of mailing lists, I filter with procmal, scan with
spamassassin and my email address is on so many webpages, I don't need
to protect it anymore. 

But a casual poster might just look for an answer to a single question
and might not want to follow all the discusscions on the list by
subscription. That's a reason for keeping this list open. It may not
be a strong one though, but might probably be stronger for LAU actually. 

Just my 2 cent thingie enlargement.

ciao
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 Frank Barknecht                               _ ______footils.org__



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