11 Jul
2014
11 Jul
'14
8:22 a.m.
I dunno, as a sysadmin who works almost completely with open source
software, I myself am often in the position of "I just want to ask one
question"... it definitely gets to be a pain to go through signing up for a
list, (maybe) waiting on moderator approval to join, finally being able to
ask my one question, get a response, and then unsubscribe, all the while,
receiving all this other list traffic not germane to my one question that I
really don't care about (and as we all do, I get too much e-mail as it
is)... there is some real utility to being able to shoot a question to a
list & just ask for response to personal e-mail, or read in the list
archives on the Web and not have to actually subscribe to the thing. If the
system permits posting from non-members I'd vote to keep it that way; I
don't feel like the list is excessively spammy... so long as the mods don't
feel like they're putting excessive amounts of work into it?
Best,
Sean
On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 11:04 AM, Zane Healy <healyzh at aracnet.com> wrote:
On Jul 11, 2014, at 7:49 AM, David Riley <fraveydank at gmail.com> wrote:
On Jul 11, 2014, at 9:44 AM, geneb <geneb at
deltasoft.com> wrote:
I've always thought that was interesting, perhaps moving the list to
members only, would be advisable?
Zane
Isn't the list configured to prevent posting
from non-members?
I don't think it is; there are plenty of folks who aren't
subscribed due to the volume (even for cctech) who occasionally
post with requests for direct replies only.