From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 82213 invoked by alias); 6 Jun 2018 00:18:57 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 82178 invoked by uid 89); 6 Jun 2018 00:18:56 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-0.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,UNSUBSCRIBE_BODY autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=bulletin, penny, forth, H*Ad:U*frank X-HELO: midtown.nycx.com Received: from midtown.nycx.com (HELO midtown.nycx.com) (192.104.18.21) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Wed, 06 Jun 2018 00:18:55 +0000 Received: from [192.168.1.2] (pool-108-27-219-65.nycmny.fios.verizon.net [108.27.219.65]) (authenticated bits=0) by midtown.nycx.com (8.13.7/8.13.7) with ESMTP id w560IqbQ011854 for ; Tue, 5 Jun 2018 20:18:52 -0400 Subject: Re: My delayed complaint about spam on this list To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <5b1724fa.1c69fb81.e68c1.159b@mx.google.com> From: Frank Farance Message-ID: Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2018 00:18:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <5b1724fa.1c69fb81.e68c1.159b@mx.google.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2018-06/txt/msg00054.txt.bz2 On 2018-06-05 20:04, Steven Penny wrote: > [...] > If OP is suggesting people can only reply if they are subscribed, then I am not a fan of that. No, I'm not suggesting that one must be subscribed, I'm pointing out that if one wants to have a back and forth discussion (in a practical sense), some kinda registration/subscription system is necessary. What I like about the present format of this list is: it's just E-mail, there aren't bulletin board web interfaces to forces the fragmentation of the discussion into separate threads, with cygwin I can see the discussion threads based upon Subject line. Someone suggested a moderator (or multiple moderators) that would approve messages from outsiders. That sounds like the easiest approach because it anyone can write to the list and there would be just a short delay for those people who aren't subscribers, but the main benefit would be the lack of spam. I'm not tied to any technology, and I'm happy to have heard some more discussion, which better informed me about some of the Use Cases I was unaware of. So here's my question (and it assumes that there would be volunteer(s) to moderate): Question: "Would a moderation system work where subscribers could send messages directly, but non-subscribers would need a moderator to approve the message?" If that is acceptable, then the next step would be to find a couple volunteers. Your thoughts? -FF -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple