Open the list?

[Bas Wijnen]

On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 12:08:25PM +0100, Miriam Ruiz wrote:
> By default, alioth's mailing list is open for messages written by subscribers,
> and needs approval for non-subscribers. I've added everybody who have written
> to the white list so nobody who has written once should have any problem with
> this.
> 
> Do you think I should open it for everybody without need of approval?

There's too much spam these days to do that.  However, that also means that
you'll have quite a lot of work moderating once they have all found the
address.  Unless there is a good spam filter which discards the spam before
sending "this message requires moderation".  Is there?

Thanks,
Bas

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