[Matplotlib-devel] user mailing list policy

[Eric Firing]

Tom,

Is it possible to have it automatically reply to non-subscribers with a 
message telling them to subscribe and re-post?

If it were opened up, wouldn't it get quite a bit of spam?

Do you know how other lists handle this problem?

Eric

On 2017/01/28 5:59 AM, Thomas Caswell wrote:
> Going through the moderation backlog on matplolib-user we have a way
> high false-negative rate of non-subscribing posting with reasonable
> emails (you just got a pile of old emails because I cleared the queue).
>
> I think we should either open the user list to any posters or get some
> sort of rotation going so that the moderation queue gets handled
> (ideally) once a day.
>
> Tom
>
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