houghi wrote:
To have no spam for one. To have better control for two. Because that is how the mailinglist already works for three.
as long as I know, the mailing list is not moderated
I am talking about the link mailinglist-usenet for existing opensuse mailinglists. Or would you want to takle away subscription for the mailinglist and everybody can just start posting?
on my LUG, the list is quite stricly controlled. that is only the subscribers can freely post. the non subscriber can post, but his mail is moderated. the list use DSBL bloking and in all recieves quite no spam. but the news counterpart is not moderated at all and this gives no problem I'm aware of. anybody can read and post. spammer use news groups to collect adresses, but usually not to send posts. I really dislike forum type (a la phpBB), but use news extensively and with much comfort. It's easy to subscribe to a news group, much more than to a list. You go there only if you want and from where you want, the last month archive is at hand. usually I subscribe, watch for two days and post if necessary, but a survey by thread is fast and I can see if my problem have been discussed earlier. its easy to moderate _after_, that is give a "cancel" right to some administrator, with simple gidelines (delete all is not in chart) notice that I could _never_ post on some Linux moderated forums, my subject was always rejected, specially boring :-(()) a mailing list is best for day to day work with others, to be sure not to let a data pass through... jdd -- http://www.dodin.net Quelques images: http://dodin.org/galerie_photo_web/expo/index.html