On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 07:53:26PM +0100, Harald Welte wrote:

Dear all,

so far the osmocom.org mailing lists have always been in a 'non-members are manually moderated' mode. This has created a lot of work for manual list moderation, where a lot of the messages caught are simply spam, and only the occasional valid message is being received.

I'd like to thank the list moderators for taking care of this.

However, in more recent discussions, we were considering to move the lists to a completely closed mode, i.e. postings would automatically be rejected from non-members.

The automatic response would contain a description of how to subscribe in 'nomail' mode, i.e. to subscribe in a way to be able to post to the list, while still not receiving any incoming traffic. The latter should be fine for occasional posters who don't want the bulk e-mail that goes with a full/regular subscription.

Please provide feedback in case you disagree with that change. Unless there is major opposition, we will likely transition to the 'closed' mode within one month.

For the dect list I'm all in favour of this. There's very low traffic and almost only spam. Cheers, Patrick

ok for the closed mode ! 73 IW3BTI 2014/1/12 Harald Welte <laforge@gnumonks.org>

Dear all,

so far the osmocom.org mailing lists have always been in a 'non-members are manually moderated' mode. This has created a lot of work for manual list moderation, where a lot of the messages caught are simply spam, and only the occasional valid message is being received.

I'd like to thank the list moderators for taking care of this.

However, in more recent discussions, we were considering to move the lists to a completely closed mode, i.e. postings would automatically be rejected from non-members.

The automatic response would contain a description of how to subscribe in 'nomail' mode, i.e. to subscribe in a way to be able to post to the list, while still not receiving any incoming traffic. The latter should be fine for occasional posters who don't want the bulk e-mail that goes with a full/regular subscription.

Please provide feedback in case you disagree with that change. Unless there is major opposition, we will likely transition to the 'closed' mode within one month.

Thanks, Harald

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Am Sonntag, den 12.01.2014, 19:53 +0100 schrieb Harald Welte:

Dear all,

so far the osmocom.org mailing lists have always been in a 'non-members are manually moderated' mode. This has created a lot of work for manual list moderation, where a lot of the messages caught are simply spam, and only the occasional valid message is being received.

I'd like to thank the list moderators for taking care of this.

However, in more recent discussions, we were considering to move the lists to a completely closed mode, i.e. postings would automatically be rejected from non-members.

The automatic response would contain a description of how to subscribe in 'nomail' mode, i.e. to subscribe in a way to be able to post to the list, while still not receiving any incoming traffic. The latter should be fine for occasional posters who don't want the bulk e-mail that goes with a full/regular subscription.

Please provide feedback in case you disagree with that change. Unless there is major opposition, we will likely transition to the 'closed' mode within one month.

Hi The only disadvantage I can see is, that you cannot simply CC the list, when you get a question to your personal address, that might be interesting for the list. Your mail will still get through, but the next reply will not make it to the list. But that is quiet acceptable, compared to a lot of spam being send to such lists.