[PLUG] in the mean time

Mike De La Mater mikedela at ipns.com
Sun Jun 9 05:54:25 UTC 2002


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6/8/02 10:47:42 PM, Jeme A Brelin <jeme at brelin.net> wrote:

>
>On Sat, 8 Jun 2002, Neil Anuskiewicz wrote:
>> 1. Few people (if any) use the news gateway, so let's kill that and go
>> back to a configuration *not* allowing non-subscribers to send to the
>> lists. This needs to be changed for *each* list.
>
>I disagree.  I like the option of a news gateway and I think a few pieces
>of spam for a few days or weeks until the filter is in place is a totally
>reasonable price to pay for the availability of diverse list access
>methods.
>
>> 2. As it stands now, you can change your individual mailman config to
>> be invisible on the subscriber list. This is easy to do and I
>> recommend that anyone who values their privacy, take a minute and do
>> so. That's in the mean time. Soon, very soon, I would like the list
>> config for *each* list changed so the subscriber list is not available
>> to anyone (subscriber or not). Granted the format of the list is not
>> very useful as is but a determined spammer could use the lists.
>
>I think it's best to leave the configuration open and let users modify
>their own configuration as they choose.
>
>If the list is set to not provide user lists, then it will not provide
>user lists regardless of the will of the individual subscribers.  Whereas,
>if the list does provide user lists, it will only provide a list of users
>that have chosen or failed to opt out of the list.
>
>Clearly the current configuration is the most flexible.
>
>I understand that it does a poor job of accomodating the lazy, but I don't
>think that's the list admin's job.
>
>J.
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