On Tue, 4 Sep 2007, Marcus Meissner wrote:
1. Abandon this level of strictness and instead use decent spam and virus filtering. This does not help, as I see with the gphoto mailinglists.
That means the gphoto mailing lists don't have good filters. Those on gcc.gnu.org hardly ever let spam or viruses through. On Tue, 4 Sep 2007, Stephan Kulow wrote:
What I consider _very_ ugly though is that these mails are simply wasted and not moderated or even replied full quote. Right now I have to dig in my sent folder to resend with the correct From header.
Ack. On Tue, 4 Sep 2007, Henne Vogelsang wrote:
Frankly, with unfriendly a reponse like this, I usually think twice about contributing. Could you please state whats unfriendly in that response?
As Coolo pointed out, it doesn't allow me unblock or simply resend my own message, but I first have to subscribe (where the response doesn't tell me where) and then find my original message and resend it. It would be nice to see the following changes: o Include a reference to the respective mailing list page on www.opensuse.org, so that subscription is just a link away. (I see you're actually proposing this below. ;-) o Describe how to subscribe using mail. o Provide more details on the "nomail" magic.
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?
Basically the original message is put into quarantine and instructions are provided how to self-approve it. That self-approval step takes care of bots and similar. w3c.org really handles this nicely, for example.
True. I can modify that message. How about
"If you want to be able to post from more than one email address, you can subscribe the other addresses to the nomail version of the list. For more information on of the openSUSE mailinglists see http://en.opensuse.org/Mailinglists"
That would be great, thanks. (s/on of/on/, I assume.) It would be nice to also provide direct instructions on how to subscribe by e-mail, so that one doesn't have to go through the web; basically add To subscribe to a mailing list, send e-mail to <LISTNAME>+subscribe@opensuse.org to the snippet above. Thanks, Gerald -- Dr. Gerald Pfeifer E gp@novell.com SUSE Linux Products GmbH Director Inbound Product Mgmt T +49(911)74053-0 HRB 16746 (AG Nuremberg) openSUSE/SUSE Linux Enterprise F +49(911)74053-483 GF: Markus Rex --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org