[WikiEN-l] Suggestion: Bouncing mail from non-subscribed addresses

[Ray Saintonge]

David Gerard wrote:
> On 03/03/2008, Andrew Gray <shimgray at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> On 03/03/2008, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
>>     
>>  > So we want to run it past the list, you the participants we serve,
>>  > first. For/against and why? (This is not quite a straw poll.)
>>     
>> What proportion of messages would currently be bounced? It's hard to
>>  make any conclusions without knowing if this affects one useful email
>>  a month or seventy...
>>     
> We get very few emails to the list that aren't from subscribed
> addresses. These are either:
>
> 1. Wikipedians dropping in to make one comment. (maybe one a week?)
> 2. Non-Wikipedians emailing here as if it's info@ (maybe one or two a month?)
I would infer from that that we are not dealing with a big problem.  It 
is sometimes refreshing to read comments from someone who is not one of 
the usual suspects.

Ec