Henne Vogelsang escribió:
That might be true for those lists. But this is not true in general. Most of the major FOSS mailinglists are subscribers only.
IMHO if you want to participate or contribute in a project, the very minimun effort that the user should take is subscribing to a list, not willing to do so denotes a lack of interest.
Frankly, with unfriendly a reponse like this, I usually think twice about contributing.
Could you please state whats unfriendly in that response?
I think there is nothing unfriendly.
If human moderation does not work, how about a simple scheme where one has to follow a URL provided in the auto-response to unlock his previously sent message? w3c does this very nicely, for example.
So self moderation? What use would that be?
Not to mention that writting a bot in PHP to bypass this highly questionable method should not take more than an hour ;) -- "You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them." --Ray Bradbury Cristian Rodríguez R. SUSE LINUX Products GmbH Research & Development --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org