[Web Comm] Allowing non-subscribers to post? (was: RE: About project categories)

Frank Warmerdam warmerdam at pobox.com
Thu Aug 3 08:53:18 EDT 2006


Auke Jilderda wrote:
> On 03 August 2006 12:19, Mateusz Loskot wrote:
>> <snip> (I will get back to the categorisation stuff after others have
>> had a chance to respond as well.)
>>
>> p.s. I'm replying to Auke and Frank, plus webcommittee address is
>> included, but as I'm not subscribed, so my replie will likely not
>> reach the dev at webcommittee.osgeo.org mailing list.
> 
> I admitted this post to the list.  Is there a particular reason for
> having the list restrict posting to subscribers or would it perhaps be
> good to reconfigure the list to allow anybody to post to it?

Auke,

By default most lists have been kept subscriber only to avoid spam.  I'm
not sure that it is critical, and we did open up the board list without
experiencing any significant spam problems.

Best regards,
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