On Fri, Jun 04, 2010 at 11:12:04AM -0400, Barry Warsaw wrote:
On Jun 04, 2010, at 11:20 AM, Ian Eiloart wrote:
These days, I guess that requiring approval for membership should be the default, so that should be part of any shipping style.
Is it? Aren't most open source discussion lists generally open membership (perhaps with initial moderation)?
Are we (as a community) forgetting who the majority of users/admins who need "more help than normal" are?
I would have thought more "real-world" users of Mailman, would be the sort of things we see questions being asked about on mailman-users; newsletters, announcement lists, that sort of thing, rather than what we, as geeks are au fait with.
I'm more of the mould that maybe we should make things a little easier for those who can't read source-code, who need something up and running quickly and without fuss; I'm not quite sure I go as far as Ian, in requiring approval, but certainly to require confirmation, and I might suggest, moderation bit being set, too.
(most of *my* 400 odd lists are for non-geeks; a majority of them are open-subscription, without moderation, but I vaguely keep an eye on the amounts of mail going to each list; there's an element of trust, and vigorous spam-filtering going on before mail gets to Mailman).
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